Animal Infographics
Digital Art, Illustration, Drawing
2011
Artfully drawn animal illustrations coupled with easy-to-grasp information combine to create these images that function both as art and as scientific information.
  • Animal Infographics
    Artfully drawn animal illustrations coupled with easy-to-grasp information combine to create these images that function both as art and as scientific information.
  • Recent studies show the warming climate is contributing to the increase of chytrid disease, a fungus infection that is responsible for the extinction of many tropical frog species. The fungus, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, infects tadpoles and eventually attacks the skin of adults and kills them. Scientists know the spore stage can swim through water to infect other frogs, but there is still much to know about how the disease spreads, and if it can survive in other animals. Digitally painted for the National Science Foundation.
  • Green-eyed frogs in Australia recognize potential mates by the pitch and note rate of males songs. Geographic isolation has allowed the songs of different sub-populations to change to the point that they no longer recognize one another, even though their offspring are viable. Drawn in color pencil and digital painted for the National Science Foundation.
  • Prairie Voles males are devoted fathers, compared to the similar Montane voles who have no loyalty to their mates or family. Researchers found that random changes altering the length of microsatellite DNA near the gene for the vasopressin receptor affect social behavior in male voles. A longer microsatellite region resulted in more bonding and care giving. Digitally painted for the National Science Foundation.