Alexander Skutch needs little introduction to any enthusiast of tropical birds. Skutch was born in the United States, but he spent more than sixty years living on a small farm in southern Costa Rica observing and writing about Neotropical ornithology, natural history,...
Some relationships are legendary: Laurel and Hardy, Lennon and McCartney, Stanley and Livingstone, Astaire and Rodgers, … Han and Chewbacca. While each person individually showed an impressive level of accomplishment on their own, together they formed a creative,...
A broad-based education must include opportunities for engagement with the natural world. A useful approach, especially for students in the natural/environmental sciences, can be made through foundational instruction on how to observe and how to record these...
Species’ traits are important ecologically. Examples of species’ traits include body size, generation length, habitat breadth, and mating system. While individuals certainly vary within species for traits, the variation among species is often great. Research on a...
Natural-history writing comes in many flavors. Sometimes it takes the form of a catalog of observations of plants and animals, other times it presents accounts of exploration and adventure in the wild, and sometimes it is as much about the people as the landscape that...