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Featured in the New York Times is a seventeen page slide show titled Cloud Forests, Birds, and the Origins of Island Life<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 Chris Filardi, a biologist at the American Museum of Natural history, traveled to the Solomon Islands in order to study evolution and conservation of the island’s species.\u00a0 Solomon Islands is a sovereign state in Oceania, east of Papau New Guinea, that consists of nearly one thousand islands.\u00a0 The slide show features bits and pieces of his photographs and field notes from the expedition.<\/p>\n Chris Fildardi writes,<\/p>\n “For biologists, islands have always been illuminating places. In part, this reflects both the relative simplicity of island ecosystems and also the richly unique, and sometimes bizarre, turns that life takes on islands – think parrots behaving like big rodents, massive dragonlike lizards and miniature hippos, giant flightless dodo birds and tiny ground-foraging bats.”<\/p>\n So, why not take a break from studying and take yourself on a trip to the Solomon Islands?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0 Featured in the New York Times is a seventeen page slide show titled Cloud Forests, Birds, and the Origins of Island Life.\u00a0 Chris Filardi, a biologist at the American Museum of Natural history, traveled to the Solomon Islands in … Continue reading