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Celebrating Darwin's Legacy: Evolution In The Galapagos Islands And The Great Plains, Paul A. Johnsgard
Celebrating Darwin's Legacy: Evolution In The Galapagos Islands And The Great Plains, Paul A. Johnsgard
Paul Johnsgard
An exhibition of photographs by Linda R. Brown, Josef Kren, Paul A. Johnsgard, Allison Johnson, and Stephen Johnson; paintings by Allison Johnson; drawings by Paul A. Johnsgard; and related Darwiniana. Sponsored by the Center for Great Plains Studies, James Stubbendieck, director, and the Great Plains Art Museum, Amber Mohr, curator, in honor of the bicentennial of Charles Darwin's birth (1809-2009) and the 150th anniversary of The Origin of Species (1859). EXHlBlTORS Linda R. Brown, Lincoln, Nebraska. B.S. (Pharmacy) University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, 1965. Paul A. Johnsgard, Lincoln, Nebraska. Foundation Professor Emeritus, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. B.S. (Zoology) North Dakota State …
Quail Music: The Complex Calls Of A Bird Contain Clues To Its Evolution, Paul A. Johnsgard
Quail Music: The Complex Calls Of A Bird Contain Clues To Its Evolution, Paul A. Johnsgard
Paul Johnsgard
Ethological research has revealed that the vocal communications of birds are highly specialized behavioral adaptations that can shed light on evolutionary processes. The calls of the quails of the New World are a good example. This group of birds includes some thirty species, about half of which are limited to the tropical forests of Central and northern South America. The other species are North American, ranging as far north as southern Canada. Morphological evidence favors the view that the most generalized, or “primitive,” of these species are the tree quails of Mexico’s moist mountain forests. The more open-country and arid-adapted …