Author Archives: Judith Lock

There was an interesting programme about oaks trees on BBC4 last week, watch it on iPlayer here http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b06fq03t/oak-tree-natures-greatest-survivor   For Ada Lovelace day – Implicit and explicit bias against women in science https://peerj.com/blog/post/115284878277/we-need-to-be-vigilant-to-stop-biases-occurring-solving-the-challenges-of-gender-balance-in-science-an-interview-with-professor-jonathan-eisen/   Dung beetles confused by seeds that smell like dung http://www.biosphereonline.com/2015/10/05/dung-beetles-deceived-by-dropping-like-seeds/   Summer review from the short-haired bumblebee project – http://www.bumblebeereintroduction.org/summer-review-2015/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=summer-review-2015   […]

From 2014-15 SEEN contributor of the year, Owen Middleton – “I saw something on BBC that you may have been aware of anyway but thought it would be good for the next SEEN edition and is relevant to the MRes Wildlife Conservation course as it’s about Kenya! As a way to combat and deter poaching, a […]

Owen Middleton (of SEEN and Bella Vista fame) says “Here’s an interesting article (for SEEN) that involves hunting by echolocation in Harbour Porpoises and touches on convergent evolution: Dolphins, whales, porpoises are similar to bats in that they detect prey location via emitting different frequencies of clicks (echolocation). It was thought that this involved a narrow acoustic range but this study suggests […]