Descubriendo animales y plantas de la selva tropical - Discovering Rainforest Animals and Plants
Fundación Fauna de la Amazonía is situated near the Llanganates National Park in the Pastaza Province of Ecuador. Here, alongside other ...
Climate Week NYC 2009: Building an Origami Forest (in 90 Seconds) - Conservation International (CI)
www.conservation.org Like origami's intricate constructions, tropical forest ecosystems are beautiful, complex and exceedingly fragile; if ...
Zoopharmacognosy: how self-healing animals could save humans
As humans we take many things for granted. When we come down with a sore throat, a fever, or the dreaded stomach flu, we drag our aching bodies into our cars and visit the doctor. Animals have no such luxury. Instead they have mastered evolution and have acquired an innate knowledge of the plants, soils, minerals, algae, and other remedies that nature offers to heal their aches and pains.
Zoopharmacognosy, or simply known as animal self-medication, has been used by many animals, including our faithful, domestic companions and their wild relatives, to treat a variety of ailments. Along the road of evolution and through trial and error, animals learned which of nature’s bounty could heal them. Through their innate knowledge, animals seek out beneficial plant secondary metabolites, through smelling the aroma of pure essential oils or recognizing certain colors.
Zoopharmacognosy, or simply known as animal self-medication, has been used by many animals, including our faithful, domestic companions and their wild relatives, to treat a variety of ailments. Along the road of evolution and through trial and error, animals learned which of nature’s bounty could heal them. Through their innate knowledge, animals seek out beneficial plant secondary metabolites, through smelling the aroma of pure essential oils or recognizing certain colors.
If All Tropical Forests Learning News
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Connecting the Amazon Rainforest Scientists have shown that, like other tropical rainforests in Southeast Asia and Africa, the Amazon acts like a giant pump, cycling moisture around the planet. But the march of deforestation has leveled 17 percent of the original forest cover, ... |
Zoopharmacognosy: how self-healing animals could save humans
However, if we continue to observe and learn from animal behavior we can understand what constitutes a holistic environment for them as well as ourselves. After all, we are also trying to survive on this self-contained bio-dome known as Earth. ...
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Learning the language of the forest
It takes time to learn the language of the forest – the shapes, sounds, scents, textures – and that language becomes part of one's culture. I think of the herbalist who told me of learning to identify 400 species of trees and plants from a leaf or a ...
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Angelique Todd, the gorillas' friend
'In the lowlands, where you can't see forest for the trees, you can come upon a gorilla a yard away before either of you knows it, which is dangerous.' Even walking in tropical forest is a job in itself. There is hardly a path that does not require a ...
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A Quiet Push to Grow Crops Under Cover of Trees
The climate of the northern Rockies, though, is a world away from tropical forest farms, and the Floras are pioneers. They have had their share of learning experiences. Bees left their hives and never came back; the Floras had to pollinate their fruit ...
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