West Nile Virus in a Warming World

NOTE: This is my first work of independent journalism, carried out over several months.  Feedback would be greatly appreciated. Just this fall, the Wildlife Conservation Society published its “Deadly Dozen” list, a report that provides examples of diseases that could spread as a result of climate-induced changes in temperatures and precipitation levels. In the report, [...]

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Greetings from the World of Reptiles

Cranwell’s horned frog, Ceratophrys cranwelli, also known as the Pacman frog, is a terrestrial frog native to Argentina. The Colorado river toad, Bufo alvanus, is a terrestrial frog native to the American Southwest and northern Mexico.  It has bufotoxins, which make it venomous. The Golden mantella, Mantella aurantiaca, is a terrestrial frog native to Madagascar.  Although [...]

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Hey Bungalow Bill, What Did You Kill?

So today’s blog post is going to be a biggie. I stumbled across this article about elephant poaching. It turns out, elephants are being poached for their tusks at a great rate today than they were before the international ban was established by CITES in 1989. In the decade before the ivory ban, 7.4% of [...]

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