Buzzed Biology

Stevie Foxette explains her recent absence from recording, and when you can hope to hear new episodes. Thanks for the patience, folks!

On this week’s episode, Stevie Foxette discusses Lake Baikal and Baikal seals, the only species of seal that only lives in freshwater.

Inspiring post: https://www.reddit.com/r/Awwducational/comments/cigvh8/baikal_seals_also_known_as_nerpa_are_the_worlds/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app

Hampton, S.E., L.R. Izmest’eva, M.V. Moore, S.L. Katz, B. Dennis, E.A. Silow. (2008). Sixty years of environmental change in the world’s largest freshwater lake - Lake Baikal, Siberia. Global Change Biology, 14: 1947-1958. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2486.2008.01616.x

Miyazaki, N. (2018). Baikal seal: Pusa sibirica. Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals, 3rd ed: 57-58.

Wikipedia contributors. (2019, July 16). Lake Baikal. In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 23:08, July 29, 2019, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lake_Baikal&oldid=906561459

Wikipedia contributors. (2019, July 5). Oligocene. In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 23:08, July 29, 2019, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oligocene&oldid=904898732

This week your host Stevie Foxette and Becca Audrey (@aeil_runner) to discuss tigers, Siberian tigers in detail, and the origins of white tigers. There’s also some The Big Lebowski quotes and yelling at lazy birders, and discussion on whether Stevie is actually Jeffery Dahmer.

Chai White Russian recipe from Half Baked Harvest: https://www.halfbakedharvest.com/vanilla-chai-tea-white-russian/

Can, O.E., N. D’Cruze, M. Balaskas, D.W. Macdonald. (2017) Scientific crowdsourcing in wildlife research and conservation: Tigers (Panthera tigris) as a case study. PLoS Biol 15(3): e2001001. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.2001001 Retrieved July 15, 2019 from https://www.theprustenproject.org/think-for-tigers-initiative.html

Chestin, I.E., M.Y. Paltsyn, O.B. Pereladova, L.V. Iegorova, J.P. Gibbs. (2017). Tiger re-establishment potential to former Caspian tiger (Panthera tigris virgata) range in Central Asia. Biological Conservation 205: 42-51.

Gray, T.N.E., R. Crouthers, K. Ramesh, J. Vattakaven, J. Borah, M.K.S. Pasha, T. Lim, C. Phan, R. Singh, B. Long, S. Chapman, O. Keo, M. Baltzer. (2017). A framework for assessing readiness for tiger Panthera tigris reintroduction: a case study from eastern Cambodia. Biodiversity and Conservation 26(10): 2383-2399.

The Prusten Project. (2015). Think for Tigers Initiative. https://www.theprustenproject.org/think-for-tigers-initiative.html

Wertheimer, L. (2010, September 14). The true story of a man-eating tiger’s “vengeance.” NP: Morning Edition. https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129551459

Wikipedia contributors. (2019, July 15). Siberian tiger. In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 17:42, July 15, 2019, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Siberian_tiger&oldid=906384418

Wikipedia contributors. (2019, July 15). Tiger. In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 17:43, July 15, 2019, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tiger&oldid=906374561

This week your host visits Richard Doom (@richarddoomed) to discuss how biologists organize life and how coral fits into these definitions.

Sources:

Aldhebiani, A.Y. (2018) Species concept and speciation. Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences 25 (3): 437-440.

Attenborough, D. (Writer) & Scoones, P. (Director). (2001) Coral seas [Television series episode]. In Fothergill, A. (Producer), Blue Planet. London, UK: BBC.

Hickman, C.P., L.S. Roberts, A. Larson, H. l’Anson, D.J. Eisenhour. (2006) Integrated principles of zoology, 13th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill.

Mayr, E. (1942) Systematics and the Origin of Species (Columbia Univ. Press, New York)

Simpson, G.G. (1951) The species concept. Evolution 5 (4): 285-298.

Wiley, E.O. (1978) The evolutionary species concept reconsidered. Systematic Biology 27 (1): 17-26.

Wikipedia contributors. (2019, June 5). Kingdom (biology). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 14:37, July 11, 2019, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kingdom_(biology)&oldid=900381901

In this first episode, your host and Becca Audrey (@aeil_runner) discuss what Gondwana is (and how many ways to mispronounce it), island biogeography, and why Australia has so many damn marsupials.

Sources:

Hickman, C.P., L.S. Roberts, A. Larson, H. l’Anson, D.J. Eisenhour. (2006) Integrated principles of zoology, 13th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill.

Vaugh, T.A., J.M. Ryan, N.J. Czaplewski. (2000) Mammology. Burlington: Jones & Bartlett Learning.

Wallace, Alfred Russel (1863). "On the Physical Geography of the Malay Archipelago". Royal Geographical Society. 7: 205–212.

Whitfield, P. (1993). From so simple a beginning: The book of evolution. New York: Macmillan.

Wikipedia contributors. (2019, May 26). Natural history of Australia. In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 18:39, July 3, 2019, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Natural_history_of_Australia&oldid=898809809

Wikipedia contributors. (2019, June 26). Fauna of Australia. In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 18:40, July 3, 2019, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fauna_of_Australia&oldid=903491707

Welcome to Buzzed Biology, where I drink and tell you things about biology that you never realized you wanted to know. In this episode, Stevie Foxette gives you some background on here expertise and why she started this podcast.