Posts Tagged ‘amazon’

How Much Wood Would a Catfish Chuck?

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 [...]

Encantado of the Amazon

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 [...]