by Kieran Lindsey | Apr 28, 2022 | Mammals, Wildlife
BY KIERAN LINDSEY, PhD Gazing blearily through coffee steam, a ghostly figure wafting through the early morning haze caught my neighbor’s eye. “At first, it was just a ginger-orange and white shadow,” she told me, “and I thought, Oh, no… another...
by Kieran Lindsey | Dec 9, 2021 | Mammals, Wildlife
BY KIERAN LINDSEY, PhD There’s a wonderful word—one of my favorites — to describe creatures that are active at dawn and dusk. Crepuscular. There are plenty of them so the great outdoors gets lively when the light is low, making dusk and dawn excellent times to see...
by Kieran Lindsey | Aug 5, 2021 | Mammals, Wildlife
BY KIERAN LINDSEY, PhD World War II had barely ended when researchers began to notice a major migration under way in North America, from undeveloped and agricultural areas to cities and suburbs. Now, in the early 21st Century, the urban population is over 20 times...
by Kieran Lindsey | May 27, 2021 | Mammals, Wildlife
BY KIERAN LINDSEY, PhD I’ve been called a treehugger more than once in my life, and while I know the comments weren’t intended as such, I always take them as compliments. As a sobriquet it’s both true and false: true, because I do spontaneously hug exceptionally...
by Kieran Lindsey | Apr 29, 2021 | Mammals, Wildlife
BY KIERAN LINDSEY, PhD Is there any non-human skill people covet more passionately than the ability to fly? Understandably, early aviation experiments centered around mimicry of birds, complete with flapping arms that were usually covered in feathers. The Greek legend...
