Amazonian caimans do not share the same menu
Published: Wednesday, 12 July 2017
Credit: Francisco Villamarín (Paleosuchus) e Lis Stegmann (mochila).
Despite being considered generalist and opportunistic predators, the four species of Amazonian caimans consume different proportions of aquatic or terrestrial prey, reflecting the way in which each caiman species is distributed in different environments.
Polyembryony and zombie-seeds in an Amazonian tree species
Published: Wednesday, 31 May 2017
Credit: Débora Souza-Ferreira
For her master's project in Ecology, Débora Souza Ferreira investigated the phenomenon of polyembryony in the seeds of Carapa surinamensis, an Amazonian species of this pan-tropical genus of trees of the family Meliacea. The study was published in the South African Journal of Botany.
The confirmed rarity of bush dogs
Published: Tuesday, 16 May 2017
Credit: Fernanda Michalski
The bush dog, Speothos venaticus, is a little-known canid that lives in different habitats in Central and South America, but is rarely seen in nature.
