For this week’s assignment, I decided to input the crab I saw in Fiji last March into INaturalist. My username is K_Doak and here is a direct Link; Tawny Hermit Crab (Coenobita rugosus) from Nadroga-Navosa, Fiji on March 12, 2022 at 02:20 PM by k_doak · iNaturalist Using the Compare Function, the closest match identified was…
Read MoreFor this discussion I settled on Corvus Corax or the Common raven as my species of choice. I find ravens a very interesting bird for a number of reasons including their mythological relevance with indigenous Alaskan populations, their unique visual appearance, and their intelligence. This combined with their frequent presence in urban areas of Alaska,…
Read MoreI wasn’t really sure about what I wanted to look up, so I just went onto iDigBio and clicked randomly on somewhere in Oceania. I’m not entirely sure what it is exactly that I clicked on, but it’s a mollusk of some kind. There was a lot of information regarding the specimen. They had information…
Read MoreFor this weeks discussion I chose to research databases on the Shoebill Stork. Surprisingly, though the shoebill is a large bird that primaily finds it habitat range in the African nation of Sudan, there is a museum database record from the natural history museum in Oslo, Norway. The shoebill in this collection, scientific name Balaeniceps…
Read MoreFor this week’s assignment, I decided to focus my research on Brown Bears. I chose Brown Bears simply because every time I exit my cubicle area there is a rather prominent Brown Bear outside my door. I don’t actually know too much about bears, I know they are in Alaska and I know they love…
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There’s a squirrel living in the spruce trees next to out apartment on campus. Early last week, my wife thought to befriend the squirrel by placing a grape on our balcony rail. The first grape was gone without us knowing when it was taken. A couple of days later she placed three grapes on the…
Read MoreFor this discussion post, I went outside to hunt down some animals for photo purposes. Unfortunately, I found only magpies and robins, and they REALLY weren’t holding still for my impromptu photo session. Or at the very least, they were hidden in the thick branches of trees. So rather than use unidentifiable photos of birds,…
Read MoreBeluga whales are fascinating aquatic mammals. I’ve always been fascinated by beluga whales as a child and I have many stories of encountering beluga whales with my family when I was a toddler. I chose to explore the records of Beluga whales in the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History database. Before I explain the information…
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