My first view of the “harbour seal duck killer” in action was at Darren Naish’s Tetrapod Zoology blog - http://scienceblogs.com/tetrapodzoology/2009/03/a_duck-killing_harbour_seal.php
The sequence of photos was featured in the Telegraph and are linked from Darren’s blog. Being quite keen on photography myself, I know how difficult it can be to get a good picture of wildlife action. Folks on the BBC Wildlife programmes are managing it more and more, these days - but that’s with highly advanced photographic and video technology. Meanwile, I still struggle along with my £45 Casio digital.
Science Daily - http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090223121359.htm – includes a look at ongoing investigations of bioluminescence: the phenomenon of light emission by living organisms.
“Jenny Krönström, a researcher at the Department of Zoology of the University of Gothenburg has put another piece of the jigsaw puzzle in place by investigating the light organs of marine jellyfish, crustaceans and fish. In her thesis she reveals that krill, the luminescent crustacean, is equipped with special muscles that regulate light intensity through contraction and relaxation.”
A blog on CBS News -
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/03/06/politics/politicalhotsheet/entry4849589.shtml – updates us on a decision by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to remove gray wolves from the list of threatened and endangered species. Almost wiped out from the US, a conservation programme was established, and was a success: so successful that plans to remove gray wolves from the list were proposed in 2008. the matter went to the courts. Now, says CBS, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is supporting the Fish and Wildlife Service move.
The CFZ has sometimes been asked, how does one become a zoologist? A site called eHow (How To Do Just About Everything) offers tips on this question - http://www.ehow.com/how_4830969_job-experience-as-zoologist.html
They do follow the conventional academia route - and, yes, it involves hard work!
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