TSC+Alex

I attended the Antartica Lecture at the Teen Science Cafe on March 2. The guy who ran the TSC this times name was Alex. To start us off we did some extinction bingo so he could tell us more about what he knows about it and getting everyone to a place where they can understand his presentation. After this, he went on to talk about his research. He first discussed research about lemurs and tree dispersion and how important lemurs are to that ecosystem. To do this research they looked at new and old lemurs and trees fruit. The findings of this study were that lemurs are very important and that actually some trees can ONLY be dispersed by these lemurs. Therefore, if something were to happen to the lemurs the entire ecosystem would suffer greatly.

This TSC overlaps with the curriculum and things we learn in this course in the areas of extinction, population dynamics. We learned about extinction being when an animal no longer exists on the earth (fun fact trees that are no longer being dispersed are actually called orphans...how sad). Also population dynamics and how certain animals interact with each other and their surroundings (like the lemurs and the trees).