L
ATE ONE day in April 2002, a delicate blue-beige bird with a white collar and black eye mask was released into the dense forest on the Hawaiian island of Maui. The bird, a female, was one of just three remaining po’ouli (pronounced poh-oh-oolee), a species of honeycreeper that had been discovered in 1973. Believing there to be one male among the three, researchers were desperate to arrange a match. The birds, however, did not appear in the least bit concerned about the fate of their species. To help things along, earlier that day a team had caught the female, fitted her with a small radio transmitter and set her free where the male had last been seen. The next morning they set off with aerials to track the female’s progress. They soon found her, resolutely making her way back across the island to her own territory.
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Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine Biology
Local marine biologists say Hawaiian blue rice coral may reveal important clues as to how some corals might weather climate change. New research from the Hawai‘i Institute of Marine Biology and the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute takes a closer look at this phenomenon and the findings are good news.
The Conversation’s Savannah Harriman-Pote spoke with post-doctoral researcher Mike Henley about the new discovery.
The Hawai‘i Institute of Marine Biology is part of the School of Ocean & Earth Science & Technology at the University of Hawai i at Manoa. This segment aired on The Conversation on June 25, 2021.
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