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.
Unknown treefrog diversity revealed in the southwestern Amazon
Published: Tuesday, 25 April 2017
Credits: Rafael de Fraga (frog), Philip James Gleeson (field)
A novel approach that integrated the analysis of molecular, morphological and bioacoustic data revealed that 82% of the diversity of treefrogs belonging to the genus Scinax in the Madeira-Purus interfluve, in the southwestern Brazilian Amazon, remains undiscribed.
Tool use by an Amazonian primate
Published: Friday, 07 April 2017
Credit: Kelly Torralva
While monitoring caiman nests in the sustainable development reserve of Mamirauá for her masters project in Ecology, Kelly Torralva, observed a first-case tool use by a non-human primate in the Amazon. She monitored several caiman nest-mounds using camera-trapping to estimate the diversity and abundance of nest predators.
