Some photos are a bit blurry, but again, I wanted to share all of my encounters with you!
Category: Biology
Photo hunt – butterflies
Some photos are a bit blurry, because I found some of these treasure while only carrying my phone, but I wanted to share all of my findings with you. Some of the photos are also not my own, they are courtesy of my dear, beautiful, talented friend (thank you, N.!).
Growing date palms from seeds (Phoenix dactylifera)
Growing plants from seeds is so exciting and gratifying and it makes our homes more beautiful. The process: 1. collect seeds form the dates (I used medjool variety). They are usually sold ripe and even more often – dried, but just FYI – the dates are ripe when they are slightly wrinkled and soft (I …
Animal photo hunt – amphibia
When the days get longer and warmer, one of the best things to do is go on a photo hunt for nature’s gifts. One will always discover brilliant treasures.
Dolphin series: fishery interactions
Fishing intensity keeps increasing throughout the world, which has negative impacts on nontarget species, including marine mammals. Thus bycatches have become a critical issue for marine mammal populations. Every year fishing industry removes about 80–90 million tons of fish and other marine organisms from the world’s oceans. Another 7–8 million tons of unwanted animal biomass …
Threats to dolphins
Dolphin mortality results from both natural and anthropogenic causes. Natural causes include old age, failure to thrive as a calf, intra-specific agonistic interactions, predation, stingray wounds, disease, storms and biotoxins from harmful algal blooms such as red tides. Threats of human origin include entanglement in nets, entanglement in or ingestion of fishing gear, pollution, boat …
On a beautiful autumn day – photo story
The best thing you can do on a beautiful autumn day is to go hiking. There’s something magical about forests in the autumn.
Dolphin behaviour
To research dolphin behaviour we first have to ask the question: what is the problem the behavior has evolved to solve? The following is a list of some of the main problems: foraging: how to find, select, and process prey; predator avoidance or defense: the flip side of foraging from the prey’s point of view; …
9 days in Iceland
Iceland is mesmerizing, for the eye and for the mind. I will let the photos do most of the talking and just add some captions as we go through the days. Things we did (2 months) before the trip: planned the whole route according to all the sites we wanted to see, made accommodation reservations …
Photo identification in marine biology
Definition in marine biology: the method of study of marine mammals using photographs to identify individuals. We will particularly concentrate on dolphins and how we rely on the presence of unique natural features, specifically on the dorsal fin (the size and location of notches and cuts), to identify individual animals. Natural markings data can be …