July 5, 2017

A Good Egg, Indeed

A wonderfully diverse and cross-disciplinary team published a paper this month in the mega-prestigious journal Science that really struck a...

Animal Science

June 14, 2017

One Leg Up

Well, it certainly is one of the most frequent questions we get from guests at the Zoo: “Excuse me, but...

Animal Science

May 25, 2017

What makes sense?

We can only know the world around us by the context in which we sense it, both as individuals or...

Animal Science

April 26, 2017

Primate Communication

The human voice clearly is a remarkable phenomenon. The anatomy of our throat and the cognitive abilities of our brain...

Animal Science

April 12, 2017

How long is that snake?

This is one of the most frequently asked questions that a herpetologist hears. No doubt about it. Although I am...

Animal Science

March 22, 2017

Secrets of Elephant Trunks

Let’s do a little experiment. Find a small piece of food around you, about the size of a hard candy...

Animal Science

March 8, 2017

Venomous or Poisonous?

Okay, it used to be simple for us biology nerds to distinguish “poisonous” organisms from “venomous” organisms. In lectures, I...

Animal Science

February 22, 2017

Sun Bear Tongues and Frog Tongues

The animals at Zoo Atlanta represent so many opportunities for biologists around the world to learn basic information about, well,...

Animal Science

January 11, 2017

Zebras and tigers oh my!

How did the zebra get its stripes? How did the tiger get its stripes? These are age-old questions in natural...

Animal Science

January 11, 2017

Rodent Bones

CSI at the Zoo! What happened to these animal bones, thousands of years ago? A research team at Emory University...

Animal Science Posts

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