Biodiversity

Monthly Archive: December Biod

Changing of the guard – Schad Gallery welcomes North America’s largest land animal

Posted: July 21, 2011 - 09:32 , by Dave Ireland

Moving the bison

Moving the North American Plains Bison (Bison bison bison) from into the gallery.

A tortoise by any other name is…a new species.

Posted: July 11, 2011 - 13:47 , by Cathy Dutton

An image of a tortoise.

Who am I and where do I come from? Photo credit: Taylor Edwards

The Mammals Strike Back!

Posted: June 30, 2011 - 13:47 , by admin

After our recent post about mouse-eating frogs, Burton Lim of the mammalogy department, one of the ROM’s bat experts, decided to fight back for the mammals. Behold Trachops cirrhosus, the frog-eating bat!

Bee Contest Winners!

Posted: June 24, 2011 - 12:04 , by Sarah Elliott

On June 11 and 12, the Keenan Family Gallery of Hands-on Biodiversity hosted our Bee Appreciation Day. Visitors from far and wide swarmed to the gallery’s beehive to get the buzz on the new bee colony from our very own Queen Bee, Janine, the gallery’s beekeeper (and I promise I will stop making bee puns now).