The Ecology Pundit

A Study in Ecology

Update! This time on songbird fertility and ecological shifts

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Just yesterday, I was excited to read an article about how there is a baby boom for elephants in a National Park in Kenya. Researchers linked recent heavy rains and the ensuing vegetation to an increase in the number of elephants born over 2 years. Given that the gestation period for elephants is somewhere in […]

When nature decides to commune with you

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[Image courtesy my esteemed colleague and photographer David Ma, posted with much gratitude] Yesterday, as my aforementioned colleague David was leaving work, I rushed to the parking lot to seek some clarification from him. As we talked, with him inside his car and me outside, this young Fox Squirrel became really interested in trying to […]