I managed to get out to Malibu Lagoon State Beach for a few hours on Sunday to test out my new Canon 7D camera. Did it live up to my expectations? Did I live up to my expectations? Keep reading for my impressions and a preliminary verdict. A month ago, I had three Canon SLRs: [...]

If the idea of a couple hundred thousand termites pouring out of a rotting stump distresses you, then read no further. In May, I was scouting field sites in Miami, trying to find some good places for one of my anole experiments. In one park (A. D. Barnes Park), I encountered something completely unexpected: a [...]

Wow, I haven’t contributed anything here for a while. My field season is coming up fast; later this week I’ll be on my way to Florida, where I’ll be spending the better part of three months in South Miami doing fieldwork and captive behavioral experiments with Anolis lizards. I study interspecific territoriality between two invasive [...]

A friend of mine (thanks, Jess!) posted a link to this video last week, and it’s just too cool not to share. It’s a short excerpt from the BBC series Life, written and narrated by the great David Attenborough. The series is produced by the same folks who created the amazing Planet Earth series in [...]