Georgia Harper sent in this link to an article in PLOS One looking at the impact of a large-scale nature engagement campaign http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0149777 (thank you Georgia!)
Imogen Gast says “In the same vein as the chewbacca weevil, I found a nice little news report about a newly discovered wasp named after Brad Pitt.
http://www.sci-news.com/biology/parasitic-wasp-species-brad-pitt-03842.html” (thank you Imogen!)
Dung beetle navigation http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-36279682
There’s lots on BBC iPlayer at the moment for David Attenborough’s 90th birthday http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00zsqsr
David Attenborough quiz http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2016/05/06/the-really-hard-david-attenborough-birthday-quiz/
Dragonfly named after David Attenborough http://www.nature.com/news/natural-history-restore-our-sense-of-species-1.19870
Giant earthworms in Ecuador https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQtXriMDRvw
Carnivorous plants http://science.sciencemag.org/content/352/6287/756
A bit of BIOL1003 revision:
Plant-animal mutualism http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2016/04/25/this-plant-bleeds-sweet-nectar-to-recruit-ant-bodyguards/
Effects of islands http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2016/04/11/on-islands-even-flying-birds-are-edging-towards-flightlessness/
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