Wildlife Ecology & Conservation in a New Media world order
I'm recovering from pneumonia, and the antibiotic I'm on has left me with a disgusting taste in my mouth that has changed how everything tastes. Even water tastes gross. So in thinking about how all of my favourite foods all taste wrong, my mind went to a food that I happen to work on, salmon. Salmon is salmon,... Continue Reading →
What kind of parent do you want to be? I always thought I'd be calm and supportive, and patient. Always teaching my kids about my love of nature. Much of the time I am that kind of parent. We look at plants We watch birds We study the behaviour of animals around us We go... Continue Reading →
Our cats are members of our family. They're not merely pets, we value them for the wonderful little people that they are. They understand everything we ever say to them, but us dumb primates never hear anything more than "meow meow meow." So we have a special voice for each of them that we use to hold... Continue Reading →
We live on Vancouver Island and we're surrounded by temperate rain forests. So, you can expect that it rains a lot. Our winters are typically green rather than white, in fact. Which is great if you like to stay active outdoors throughout the year. When we lived in Edmonton, it was a real chore to... Continue Reading →
My kids both had a Christmas Concert at their elementary school last week. It wasn't called a Christmas Concert, it was called Winter Concert, but it's not like they busted out the Kwanza Rap or a grade school version of the Hanukkah Song. Each class sung some cute song about Christmas, but not any actual... Continue Reading →
I am a pretty green person. I might even fall into the category of being a "crunchy" mom. I make hand soap and laundry soap, I hang our laundry to dry, we buy organic, I keep a garden that gives us much of our veggies, I keep backyard hens, and I drive a Prius. Yes... Continue Reading →
I'm a huge fan of Albert Einstein. So much so, that when my friends had band posters up on their walls in High School, I had this up on my wall instead. Sadly, I wasn't particularly gifted at physics but I made a valiant effort to read a few of his manuscripts. I didn't "get" what... Continue Reading →
Our Siamese cat vanished from our yard a month ago. We've put up posters all over the neighbourhood. We've talked to what feels like everyone in this city. We have an ad in the paper. I can be found walking around streets in the dark with a flashlight, shaking a bag of kitty treats, and... Continue Reading →
I've come to the conclusion that daylight savings time was invented by the devil. Okay, so really it was entomologist George V. Hudson who came up with the idea as we know it. It's supposed to save energy consumption, promote outdoor leisure activity in the evening (in the summer), and reduce traffic accidents (when we "fall back" we... Continue Reading →
When you want to run an experiment, you not only have to get funding from a granting agency or foundation, you also need to satisfy Animal Care or Human Ethics regulations. The requirement for each depends on what kind of research you're doing. If you want to figure out the distribution patterns of gophers, you'll... Continue Reading →
Alina C Fisher 