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Cover of the current issue! royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rspb/2022/…

New research on adaptations to frugivory in the pale spear-nosed bat, #Phyllostomus discolor, by Laura Quinche, Sharlene Santana & Alejandro Rico-Guevara: doi.org/10.1002/ar.251… The paper is part of our upcoming Special Issue on ecological morphology and sensory biology of #bats

Check out Alyssa Sargent's (a PhD student at our Behavioral Ecophysics Lab) work on a STEM curriculum and a "Hummingbird game"! facebook.com/burkemuseum/po…

Cutting edge science doesn't have to involve the fanciest, most expensive technology. In a new paper, Burke Ornithology Curator Alejandro Rico-Guevara (Alejandro Rico-Guevara) shows just how much can be illuminated using a flashlight, a camera, and a tube full of sugar water.

Awesome video featuring Nora Lee's work with us at the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture instagram.com/p/CsKJtpgok8b/…

Since first evolving 350 million years ago, the tongue has taken myriad forms, unlocking new niches and boosting the diversity of life. #LongReads scim.ag/2NX

Tongues are the treasures that you rarely see because they are concealed inside the chest (mouth... confusing words with multiple meanings!), and there is so much to discover about these hidden gems!! Research from folks at our lab is featured here: science.org/content/articl…

Special Friday blog: rounding out #Pride2023 with Guidelines for Making #Fieldwork Accessible and Safer for #LGBTQ+ #Scientists with Maryam K & @NaturalistKels By SICB Mangum participant Juliette Rault-Wang …veandcomparativebiology.wordpress.com/2023/06/30/gui…

Most hummingbird-pollinated flowers droop upside down, so the animals must nimbly hover to access them, frantically beating their wings up to 80 times a second. Yet some sneaky hummingbirds can cheat the system—with the help of their toes. scim.ag/3gH

Hummingbirds are famous for hovering but they'd take any opportunity to avoid doing so, and this reflects in their evolution! A new highlight of our research, in a nutshell: "Clinging hummingbirds have smaller beaks and bigger feet than do honest hoverers" x.com/NewsfromScienc…

Reaching deep: honeybees adapt their nectar extraction mechanisms to maintain feeding efficiency! Check out our data- and methods- rich paper on #mechanoethology and the importance of considering the actual behavior rather than accepting preconceptions! pnas.org/doi/abs/10.107…

Check out this science #dissemination article on our honeybee nectar-feeding research! Especially its connections to the importance of deepening our understanding of the details of the mechanisms for our broader understanding of ecological success: science.org/content/articl…

Abrimos el numero 24 de la revista #OrnitologiaColombiana 👉asociacioncolombianadeornitologia.org/ojs/index.php/…

#SICB2024 is over and we would like to say a big congrats to our 2024 Best Student Presentation Winners for DCB, David Cuban won the Mimi A. R. Koehl and Stephen A. Wainwright Award for their talk on feeding in sunbirds

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PicoCam: High-resolution 3D imaging of live animals and preserved specimens biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #bioRxiv

Faye Romero Zoë Migicovsky Alejandro Rico-Guevara cj battey Museum of Vertebrate Zoology (MVZ) TL;DR: Feeders are associated with population growth, and morphological change in hummingbird beaks Read it here 👉 dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb.70… #ornithology #evolution #climatechange

Take a look at Science Magazine's article describing our work in Global Change Biology showing that beak morphology of hummingbirds has changed in association with feeders! science.org/content/articl…