Jan 31, 2016 | Natural History Blog
Read this gorgeous, enlightening story (What Does a Parrot Know about PTSD, by Charles Siebert) and you’ll never look at birds and mammals in the same way. Simply put, PTSD is not unique to humans. An excerpt: “Though the avian cerebrum possesses only the...
Jan 30, 2016 | Conservation Biology, Mammal Evolution, Natural History Blog
I’ve always been dismayed at how much humans living in the US deplore opossums (Didelphis virginianus). I don’t understand this. They are, evolutionarily speaking, true survivors – the only marsupial species that remains in the US from the...
Jan 29, 2016 | Conservation Biology, Natural History Blog
Check out my most recent blog – published on the Journal for Environment and Society’s blog site: EnviroSociety.org Lambert, Joanna E. 2016. “Regeneration of Human-Modified Landscapes and the Irony of Antipathy toward Resilient Animal Species.”...