Meintest du danger?
Family name: Nymphalidae/Brush-Footed Butterflies General description: Black; hindwind with iridescent blue scaling along outer margin; ventral hindwing dull brown-black with orange basal spots and a postmedian band of prominent orange spots Field Marks: Black; hindwing with iridescent
Pipevine Swallowtail; adults visit rotting fruit, dung
Family name: Nymphalidae/Brush-Footed Butterflies General description: Orange with black spots and short hindwing tail; hindwing primarily black in summer-form individuals; wing margins irregular; ventral wing surfaces mottled brown and leaf-like; ventral hindwing with white question mark in
Information: Adults attracted to fermenting fruit, dung
Our first exhibit of 2018 is all about poop! Yes, we mean it. There’s so much to learn about animals and our environment when you get right down to it! Jan. 27-May 6, 2018 Poop is a scientific puzzle that provides important biological evidence about animals and how they live. Animals use poop to
models, touch a termite mound replica and compete in dung
Spend a moment in our Butterfly Rainforest with Ryan learning about how some butterflies eat. Did you know, not all butterflies are pollinators that visit flowers? Some live in forest environments where limited sunlight means plants don’t often bloom so these species feed off of decaying material in
That could be dead animals, it could be animal dung
Sharks are sometimes referred to as „living fossils“. Ancient sharks lived in the oceans long before animals colonized the land. Their history goes back to at least 400 million years ago, making the 2 million year history of humans seem quite insignificant by comparison. Most fossil evidence of ear
well as casts of foot prints, scales, skin, hair and dung
Our last days on St. Martin were a flurry of activity. Our last day was spent draining ethanol in preparation for our flight and packing up all our specimens and gear. The four of us who were returning to Gainesville checked a total of 9 bags eliciting the curiosity of our fellow passengers and the
a little QT with Holothuria mexicana, the donkey dung
Over the course of four weeks this summer, a motley crew of biologists, engineers, entrepreneurs and programmers gathered at predetermined sites within Windsor Nature Park, a 185-acre tropical rainforest located in the heart of Singapore. They’d traveled from all over the world to participate in a o
third trap was stocked with a pungent lure to attract dung
After a comprehensive study of plants across the United States, researchers have arrived at the unexpected conclusion that plants able to fix atmospheric nitrogen are most diverse in arid regions of the country. This finding runs counter to the prevailing assumption that nitrogen-fixers should be co
evolved structures to steal nitrogen from insects, dung
Plants and animals display an astounding variety of amorous exploits that make our love lives seem simple in comparison. There are hermaphroditic snails that square off in a dual — complete with the molluscan equivalent of swords — during courtship, plants that produce fruit for animals that no long
seeds have been discovered in fossilized mastodon dung
Glossary of Terms A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z -A- alveolus (alveoli, plural) The depressions or sockets in the tooth-bearing skeletal elements such as maxillae and dentaries into which the roots of the teeth are inserted.
nearly simultaneously. coprolite Fossilized feces or dung
