Nature News
Craft Your Way to a Lighter Wastebasket
Feeling overwhelmed with all the trash and recyclables you’re generating while everyone is home? Try these crafts to keep your family occupied and your waste bins lighter.
Understanding the Rut Could Save Your Life
In the days between Halloween and Thanksgiving, whitetail movements peak. Driven by hormones, bucks that normally live secretly lose all fear. Their sole focus becomes finding whitetail does in estrus, and they sprint throughout their range, testing the wind to locate breedable does. Once a buck finds one, he will chase her until she acquiesces, demonstrating his physical and evolutionary fitness to breed.
Kettles Full of Hawks
Autumn is the perfect time to look up and appreciate the creatures above us who have been triggered by the colder temperatures and shorter days to do the seemingly impossible: fly thousands of miles to a new land with no guarantee of good weather, rest, or food along the way. October 12 marked the 25th annual International Migratory Bird Day, a celebration meant to further migratory bird conservation by centering a worldwide campaign around the world's major migratory bird corridors.
Hunting in Plain Sight
Barn Owls are a globally distributed species, with some individuals exhibiting a reddish-brown color, while other members are white. For a nocturnal hunter, you might predict that being all white would make it difficult to sneak up on prey, especially on nights when the moon is full. That's the hypothesis put forth by researchers Luis M. San-Jose and Alexandre Roulin. Surprisingly what other researchers found was the opposite!