Baby seals “talk” more softly when there is background noise
Have you ever heard of a dog barking softly? Unless a dog’s vocal cords are damaged or in ill health, it can really only bark loudly. Humans, however, are able…
Scavengers protect livestock from infectious disease
Brucellosis is an infectious bacterial disease that causes female bison, elk, and cattle to abort their calves. In the Yellowstone region, both wild animals and livestock can contract this highly…
Dogs tilt their heads while processing meaningful stimuli
Every dog owner is familiar with the cute, inquisitive head tilt commonly used by our canine friends. Generally, this form of body language is associated with interest or confusion, but…
New project aims to help humans talk to whales
An international team of scientists has recently launched an ambitious initiative to listen to, contextualize, and translate the language of sperm whales, with the final goal of managing to establish…
Polar bear diets reflect environmental changes
When people hear the words “global warming,” they often think of the polar ice caps melting, and the polar bears that suffer as a result. This raises questions about how…
Insect samplings in UP Laguna Land Grant yield new katydid and crickets
Entomologists from the University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB), along with international orthopterists, recently wrote on the discovery of three insects new to science — a katydid and two…
Two Romblon-endemic reptiles rediscovered in Mt. Guiting-Guiting survey
Field biologists from the UPLB Museum of Natural History and their international collaborators are elated with the formal announcement of their rediscoveries of two reptiles – a skink and a gecko – as a…
New species Philippine False Gecko described from several forest fragments of the Bicol Peninsula
A new Philippine False Gecko, named Pseudogekko hungkag, has been described from Sorsogon province by an international team of herpetologists, after thorough study of field collections made in the Bicol Region…
New book, a checklist of Philippine orb-weaver spider, is out
A new book on Philippine spiders, focusing on the orb-weavers of the Family Araneidae, has been written and recently published by Dr. Aimee Lynn B. Dupo, MNH curator for spiders…
Museum’s research partner gains National Geographic Society grant to save PH endangered frog
Norman Greenhawk, a 2021-2024 Fulbright Specialist and partner of the UPLB Museum of Natural History (MNH) on a pilot amphibian breeding initiative at the University of the Philippines Los Baños…