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The Truth About Bats
Why do bats have such a bad reputation? Are they really disease-carriers, blood-drinking, flying rodents? …

Black-capped Chickadees, the Birds Whose Brain Changes
If you love birds, especially if you feed birds, then hopefully you are familiar with Black-capped Chickadees (Poecile atricapillus). These are cute,…

White-Nose Syndrome: A Battle for the Bats
In the late winter of 2006, thousands of bats began to die in the northeastern United States. Not long before they should…

A Summer in ‘The West’: 2024 Intern Experiences
This summer, 14 interns were selected to spend 10 weeks at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody, Wyoming. Across…

Taking Flight with Pinyon Jays
The Pinyon Jay is named for its characteristic behaviors of both nesting in piñon pine trees and eating their seeds. A relative…

Caroline Lockhart: 5 Facts about Cody’s Western Novelist
In 1895, 25-year-old Caroline Lockhart wears a 246-pound diver’s suit twice her size and climbs over the edge of a tugboat, looking…