Beautiful site should bring the bears running
Beautiful site should bring the bears running.
#raincoastscience #greatbearrainforest
Beautiful site should bring the bears running.
#raincoastscience #greatbearrainforest
Wanukv river grizzly out for a morning stroll…
Eagle feasting on spawning Heiltsuk herring, with a no-kill spawn-on-kelp harvest occurring mere meters away.
Sweet day sampling…
Have you seen these jellyfish washing up on BC beaches this summer? We saw this one on Calvert Island. They’re called By-the-wind-sailor, sea raft, purple sail, or little sail – or by their scientific name Velella velella. They eat plankton and are eaten by nudibranchs. It looks like just one individual but it’s actually a whole colony of all-male OR all-female polyps! Some polyps are in charge of reproduction while others are for protection.
Doug Neasloss, Resource Stewardship Director for the Kitasoo/Xai’xais Nation and co- author of the study, did an interview on CBC As It Happens. Listen here.
“What’s that?” “That’s the fish’s heart.” “Ewwwwww…….. Cool! Can I hold it?” Cleaning salmon turns into an unexpected – and fun! – anatomy lesson for campers at the Koeye River youth camp. We identified the major organs and looked at stomach contents.