For this week’s column, I have read an ingenious paper that uses clay models to investigate the mating behaviour of a Neotropical toad species. This isn’t the first time clay models have been used, over the past few years there have been several examples where they have been used to investigate the behaviour and interactions of a target species. Leer más.
Pseudocerastes urarachnoidesis a fascinating viper and as yet has been reported only in western Iran. An elaborated arachnid-like caudal structure is a unique feature of this viper, hence gives it the common name “Iranian spider-tailed viper”. Leer más.
Conserving the planet’s biodiversity is greatly handicapped, in that only a small fraction of it (∼14–75%) has been described so far. Integrative taxonomy is making significant inroads in light of this challenge by incorporating multiple data sets across a wide range of disciplines that simultaneously elucidate phylogenetic structure and delimit species-level lineages within a unified species concept. Leer más.
Del 11 al 25 de noviembre se podrá visitar la exposición fotográfica en la casa de cultura Errota en Abadiño (Bizkaia), donde se celebra la semana de la ciencia. Además también habrá unas charlas cortas, una de ellas sobre el declive global de los anfibios. Las fotografías de la exposción de anfibios y reptiles son del fotógrafo Ramon Arambarri. Leer más.
Día: 14/11/2015. Hora: 10:00. Lugar: Centro de interpretación de Ulia. Ir al enlace.
