Tag: biology
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OnlyMarms? Biologists in Colorado turn to OnlyFans crowdfunding for marmot study after grants dry up
Daniel Blumstein is worried about money. Blumstein, a UCLA professor who heads the Marmot Project at Crested Butte’s Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, has seen federal funding he relies on to pay his graduate student researchers dwindle in recent years. “Every penny I’ve gotten from the federal government has been helpful, needed and essential. Graduate students…
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LIFE | Colorado zoo helps in long effort to save imperiled toad
The morning of June 7, 2023 marked an annual, early summer tradition for Cheyenne Mountain Zoo and several other facilities tasked with raising the tiny, imperiled creature. June is typically when members of the Wyoming Toad Recovery Team converge at the Mortenson Lake National Wildlife Refuge outside Laramie, Wyo., to release toads to their only…