Posts Tagged ‘amazon’

How Much Wood Would a Catfish Chuck?

Posted on September 1, 2010, 12:48 pm, by Sarah, under fun with fins.

Oh those beautiful armored catfish. When they aren’t invading Florida’s ecosystems and causing me headaches as a naturalist (don’t release your Plecostomus!), they are rather lovely and highly varied creatures swimming natively within the Amazon floodbasin. And the Amazon, as we fish-nerds well know, is one of nature’s hot zones for fish evolution. As a [...]

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Encantado of the Amazon

Posted on May 18, 2009, 4:33 pm, by Sarah, under conservation, marine mammals.

National Geographic seems to have aquatic wildlife on the brain. Last month they reported on leatherback sea turtles and this month they’ve published a story by Mark Jenkins (with b-e-a-utiful photos from Kevin Schafer) of the boto, the Amazonian river dolphin. The story is full of boto biology snippets that I’ve never previously heard. Many [...]

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