Eric Brown will lead an online presentation called, A Global Study of Squirrels, hosted by Merryspring Nature Center, Tuesday, April 8, at 12 p.m. 

"Squirrels in their near-global distribution and great ecological diversity have historically been a model for studying hibernation in non-tropical climates," said Merryspring, in a news release. "They have revealed a great wealth of knowledge about how mammals produce and regulate their own body heat through metabolic means."

Tropical biodiversity and the tropical-like environment of early mammals begs the question: why generate your own body heat if you can rely on your environment to do it for you? Squirrels may provide some key clues about why we mammals do what we do. 

As a member of the Levesque Lab at UMaine, Brown spends much of his time “dripping sweat on washed-out jungle paths in Sarawak, Malaysia on the island of Borneo chasing squirrels to better understand how tropical mammals handle the heat." 

This talk is part of Merryspring’s Online Winter Talk series, co-sponsored by Camden Riverhouse Hotel, Renys, A Maine Adventure, and Camden National Bank.   

This one link https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83922205228 will allow access to ALL of our onlne talks and can also be found on the Merryspring calendar at https://merryspring.org/calendar/, or you may request the link by sending an email to info@merryspring.org.  

Online talks are held as Zoom webinars and are open to everybody, free of charge. 

Merryspring is your community nature center offering walking trails, cultivated gardens, wildlife, and ecology and horticulture educational programs all year round. The park is located at the end of Conway Road, just off of Route 1 in Camden behind Hannaford Shopping Plaza. For more information on this program, please contact info@merryspring.org or call 207-236-2239.