Building "Bridges" Across the Bayou City!
While the title of today’s blog perhaps sounds like the introduction to a bad bar joke, these three things really do share something in common besides ambling into a bar or being on a Cessna short of a parachute. The thing they all share in common is t…
Read MoreWhile Earth Day undoubtedly evokes various emotions in people who are passionate about the environment, I don’t consider myself a very emotional person. I think I can count on my fingers the number of times I’ve had tears in my eyes since I was i…
Read MoreIf you’ve ever visited the Oak Motte diorama in the Farish Hall of Texas Wildlife, we’ve attempted to recreate the spectacular scene of Spring migration along the Texas Coast. Each and every Spring, 2.5-3.5 billion birds make their way north to t…
Read MoreIn some of the blogs I wrote several weeks ago, I tried to let you in on some BtS ideas of why certain diorama scenes were created the way they were. Here is another fun tidbit – over each label describing species and habitat in Farish Hall of Te…
Read MoreI’ve been doing aquatic bird surveys at McGovern Lake in Hermann Park for over a decade, but that will have to be a blog topic for the future! Every now and then my son comes with me, and he’s pretty much a reptile-magnet.  We now have document…
Read MoreOne of the most common questions I’m asked as Curator of Vertebrate Zoology is “Where and how do you get your specimens?” The standard answer is that they died of natural causes or from medical complications in captivity or at a wildlife rehabilitation…
Read MoreAs a wildlife researcher, I have worked with the Latin American Tigre (the common name for the Jaguar [Panthera onca] in Latin America), and that’s the closest I’ve come to working with tigers in their native range. So why would HMNS be interested in h…
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