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Researchers discover treefrog embryos can evaluate different features of vibrations

Researchers discover treefrog embryos can evaluate different features of vibrations

Recently, researchers from Boston University and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama have been taking a closer look at the vibrations that red-eyed treefrog embryos use as cues to trigger early hatching. They discovered that treefrog embryos can evaluate different features of vibrations. [...more]

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Appalachian Trail survey aims hidden cameras at large predators

Appalachian Trail survey aims hidden cameras at large predators

Describing his project of counting bears, bobcats and other predatory mammals along the Appalachian Trail, National Zoological Park wildlife ecologist William McShea looks to American literature for a comparison. [...more]

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This short video of an ocelot was taken by Smithsonian scientists during a recent camera-trap survey of these animals in the Peruvian Amazon. [...more]

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