PRISM News

by Katharine Milton, Ph.D.

by Matthew E. Gompper, Ph.D.

White-Throated Capuchin (Cebus capucinus) by Jacalyn Giacalone, Ph.D. and Betsy J. Mitchell, Ph.D.

by Jacalyn Giacalone, Ph.D. and Gregory E. Willis

by Dr. Rachel Page

by Elisabeth K. V. Kalko, Ph.D.

Dasyprocta Punctata by Jacalyn Giacalone, Ph.D.

I saw several root adaptations in both Panamanian and Australian tropical rainforests that were similar.

Pests keep plant species in check.

Only 20% of the original rainforest remains and only 2% of what remains is pristine (Jonathan Munro, pers. comm.), so most of the rainforests I visited were not completely original, but were in various stages of restoration.

Marsupials are mammals: they have fur, bear live young rather than laying eggs, feed their young with mother’s milk from a nipple, and show quite a bit of parental care – sometimes for longer than a year.

Symbiosis is defined as a close living association of two or more organisms from different species.