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The Bird Who Needs Less

3 days ago | biographic.com | Mark Garrison

Sometimes less is more. Especially for the ground-dwelling bird known as the little bustard (Tetrax tetrax). In the dry steppes of Europe’s Iberian Peninsula, the little bustard relies on low-intensity agriculture for habitat.
Is a Smart Gate the Key to Habitat Connectivity?

4 days ago | biographic.com | Mark Garrison

What do a wildlife conservationist, a herd of trained elephants, a jazz composer, and an architect have in common? In the South African bush, this unlikely quartet has banded together to develop an artificial intelligence-powered gate and sound system to help the region’s swelling elephant population make better use of its available range.
Lens of Time: A Watershed in Motion

1 week ago | biographic.com | Mark Garrison

Katie Garrett is a producer of natural history films that combine intimate cinematography with personal stories from people living and working alongside nature. With a degree in biology and background in the arts sector, she is particularly passionate about amphibian conservation.
Dispatches from the Last Ice Area

1 week ago | biographic.com | Mark Garrison

There is nothing easy about visiting the Last Ice Area, the last stronghold of permanent, multiyear sea ice in the Arctic Ocean. The million-square-kilometer expanse of jagged, fractured, floating ice is located in the Canadian and Greenlandic High Arctic. Despite its character and location, Mathieu Ardyna, a biological oceanographer at Laval University in Quebec City, Canada, felt compelled to visit.
How Penguin Poop Helps Antarctica Keep its Cool

1 week ago | biographic.com | Mark Garrison

This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In December 2022, Matthew Boyer hopped on an Argentine military plane to one of the more remote habitations on Earth: Marambio Station at the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, where the icy continent stretches toward South America. Months before that, Boyer had to ship expensive, delicate instruments that might get busted by the time he landed.
A Home Made of Microplastics

2 weeks ago | biographic.com | Mark Garrison

Duprat lined an aquarium tank with gold flakes, diamonds, and pearls. Then he added caddisfly larvae and sat back to watch them work. Caddisflies (order Trichoptera) are nature’s aquatic collagists. They live most of their lives as larvae on the beds of rivers and streams before emerging as winged insects and briefly taking flight. As larvae, caddisflies craft tiny apartments of sand, pebbles, and bits of wood, mortaring them together with a silk-like material they secrete from their mouths.
What a Whale Does Not See

2 weeks ago | biographic.com | Mark Garrison

Humpback whales make some of the longest migrations on Earth, swimming roughly 8,000 kilometers (4,970 miles) from their high-latitude feeding grounds toward the equator to breed and calve. Along the way, they often “lunge feed” near coastlines, opening their maws to engulf mouthfuls of fish and crustaceans. But they don’t always get the perfect gulp—sometimes fishing gear gets in the way.
A Snout of Significance

3 weeks ago | biographic.com | Mark Garrison

Along the northwestern slopes of the Ecuadorian Andes lives a little lizard with a striking silhouette. Males of the species Anolis proboscis—called the Pinocchio lizard, among other common names—sport long, nose-like proboscises off the tips of their snouts. Such appendages are rare on reptiles, and the Pinocchio may be the only species that wriggles out of its egg with its “horn” already developed.
Whale Sharks’ Low-Oxygen Advantage

3 weeks ago | biographic.com | Mark Garrison

For a whale shark, giving birth in the wide-open ocean is a daunting task. Smells carry easily, predators abound, and despite the fact that adults can grow as long and heavy as a school bus, baby whale sharks are born about the size of a domestic cat. The ocean offers few suitable hidey-holes for depositing these vulnerable offspring.
Feather Forensics Offers a Way to Root Out Poachers

1 month ago | biographic.com | Mark Garrison

Every year, the illegal wildlife trade ensnares millions of wild birds in a vast global industry worth up to US $23 billion. Poaching for the black market affects a huge diversity of life, including nearly half of all bird species. Songbirds and parrots are particularly popular targets, with thousands illegally caught and traded every year. Proving that a bird sold as a pet was born in captivity, rather than poached from the wild, is difficult.