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What triggered the largest recorded baleen whale mass mortality event? Author interview with Vreni Häussermann

What triggered the largest recorded baleen whale mass mortality event? Author interview with Vreni Häussermann

by PeerJ Community | Jun 14, 2017 | Interviews

Changes to bio-oceanographic conditions can trigger devastating mortality events for marine mammals. In March 2015, by far the largest reported mass mortality of baleen whales took place in a gulf in Southern Chile. In a recent research study published in PeerJ,...
Conservation science in a world of poaching – what steps can researchers take to protect vulnerable species from harm?

Conservation science in a world of poaching – what steps can researchers take to protect vulnerable species from harm?

by PeerJ Community | Jun 8, 2017 | Community, Guest Post

Research on vulnerable species has been instrumental in protecting habitats and wildlife. But the same research can also be negatively used for illegal poaching activities. In this guest post, Georgina Cronin, Research Support Librarian at the University of Cambridge,...
Friendly, aggressive or distressed? How humans perceive facial expressions in Barbary macaques

Friendly, aggressive or distressed? How humans perceive facial expressions in Barbary macaques

by Alun Jones | Jun 6, 2017 | Interviews

Last week PeerJ published “Experience-based human perception of facial expressions in Barbary macaques (Macaca silvanus)” by Laetitia Marechal, Xandria Levy, Kerstin Meints and Bonaventura Majolo. This study sought to investigate the evolutionary...
Ceratopsid tooth, diplodocid vertebra + endocranial anatomy of crocodylomorph: #FossilFriday roundup for #ProgPal17

Ceratopsid tooth, diplodocid vertebra + endocranial anatomy of crocodylomorph: #FossilFriday roundup for #ProgPal17

by Alun Jones | Jun 2, 2017 | Community, Conferences

To coincide with the Progressive Palaeontology 2017 conference taking place, we thought it might be worth providing a quick look at the recent paleontology research in PeerJ. Over the last few months, PeerJ has peer-reviewed and published a broad range...
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