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Zoology

Branch of biology that deals with the reproduction, development and growth, anatomy, physiology, and behavior of animals.

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Invertebrate zoology (11 items)
Vertebrate zoology (70 items)
Wildlife biology (53 items)

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Polar bear and walrus response to the rapid decline in Arctic sea ice [More info]: The Arctic is warming faster than other regions of the world due to positive climate feedbacks associated with loss of snow and ice. The USGS has modeled the future responses of polar bear and Pacific walrus populations to this environmental change.
Prehistoric packrats piled up clues to climate change [More info]: Hoarding behavior preserved prehistoric materials we can use as clues to ancient climate and ecosystem changes.
Protecting black-footed ferrets and prairie dogs against sylvatic plague [More info]: Development of vaccines and methods to deploy them, to reduce the threat of this serious illness on the population of these wild animals.
Radio-tracking amphibians: lessons from implant and external attachment procedures [More info]: Paper from Forum on Wildlife Telemetry, Snowmass Village, CO, 1997, describes technique for implanting radio-transmitters for tracking amphibians such as frogs with telemetry.
Raptor Information System (RIS) [More info]: The Raptor Information System (RIS) collection and bibliographic database have been transferred to The Peregrine Fund. The RIS records are being subsumed into the bibliography posted on the website of the Global Raptor Information Network (GRIN).
Recommended methods for range-wide monitoring of prairie dogs in the United States [More info]: One of the greatest challenges for conserving grassland, prairie scrub, and shrub-steppe ecosystems is maintaining prairie dog populations across the landscape. Of the four species of prairie dogs found in the United States, the Utah prairie dog (Cynomys
Red-Rimmed Melania (Melanoides tuberculatus) - A Snail in Biscayne National Park, Florida - Harmful Invader or Just a Nuisance? [More info]: Explains how this potentially harmful invasive species arrived, why we are concerned, where in the area it is found, what environmental factors control its spread, and what might be done in response.
Resources for banders [More info]: Links to bird banding manual, banding associations, equipment and suppliers, bibliography, band size lookup, recapture database, bander services, aging and sexing birds, longevity records, Canadian atlas of bird banding and other resources.
SAGEMAP: a web-based spatial dataset for sage grouse and sagebrush steppe management in the Intermountain West [More info]: Links to fact sheet describing the database of spatial information on sage grouse and sagebrush habitats.
Satellite tracking and geospatial analysis of feral swine and their habitat use in Louisiana and Mississippi [More info]: Invasive pigs first introduced to the continental United States in the 1500s by European explorers. Using tracking collars, we have begun to discover where these troublesome animals go.

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