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Responses of Understory and Terrestrial Birds to seasonal Flooding in the Peruvian Amazon

The University of Florida Research Foundation has named Florida Museum of Natural History researcher Akito Kawahara a UFRF Professor for 2019-2022. Kawahara is an associate professor and curator at the McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity and directs a research program that focuses on
Kawahara’s fieldwork takes him to remote islands and the jungles of the Amazon and

In the 65-million-year-old arms race between bats and moths, some moth species rub their genitals to jam the calls of bats. Radar jamming is commonly used in human warfare, allowing pilots to render themselves invisible. By unraveling the evolution of hawkmoths’ similar defense, authors of the May 2
Kawahara and collaborators scoured jungles and forests from Borneo to the Amazon

For years, pilots flying into combat have jammed enemy radar to get the drop on their opponents. It turns out that moths can do it, too. A new study co-authored by a University of Florida researcher shows hawkmoths use sonic pulses from their genitals to respond to bats producing the high-fre
Kawahara also conducted research in the jungles of Borneo and the lower Amazon.

Bayarsaikhan, U., V.V. Dubatolov, J.B. Heppner, and Y.-S. Bae. 2017. Taxonomic review of genus Danielithosia Dubatolov & Kishida (Lepidop­tera, Erebidae, Arctiinae) from northern Vietnam, with one new species. Zootaxa 4291:572-580. Breinholt, J.B., A. Lemmon, E. Lemmon, L. Xiao, C. Earl, and
Neotropical genus Epidelia, with new records for Paraguay and a new species from the Amazon

The collections and assistance in research are available for scholars both in and outside of the University of Florida. Consequently, a number of undergraduate and graduate students work on individual projects using the collections. Some of these studies are the basis of honors theses, Masters these
Emery (Florida Museum) Email: kmcdaniel@ufl.edu My research area is in the Lower Amazon

T he National Science Foundation has awarded iDigBio nearly $20 million to continue its mission of digitizing natural history collections nationwide, making them available online to researchers, educators and community scientists around the world. For the past decade, iDigBio, a collaborative
The Doris longwing butterfly, Heliconius doris, lives in Central America and the Amazon

Lawrence Page, Florida Museum of Natural History curator of fishes, has received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program award to document Thailand’s rich diversity of freshwater fish. The Fulbright Program was established in 1946 under legislation introduced by former Arkansas Sen. J. William Fulbright
“Southeast Asia is probably second only to the Amazon in terms of fish diversity,

Titanoboa, discovered by Museum scientists, was the largest snake that ever lived. Estimated up to 50 feet long and 3 feet wide, this snake was the top predator in the world’s first tropical rainforest. It was also the largest known predator on the planet between the extinction of dinosaurs 65 milli
History Additional Information Read: At 45 feet long, ‘Titanoboa’ snake ruled the Amazon

Attum, O., C. Covell & P. Eason. 2004. The comparative diet of three Saharan sand dune skinks. African Journal of Herpetology, 53 (1): 91 -94. Austin G. T., D. D. Murphy, J. F. Baughman, A. E. Launer, and E. Fleishman. 2003. Hybridization of checkerspot butterflies in the Great Basin. Journal
Common Butterflies of the Ecuadorian Amazon.