After Leda & the swan, Lead and the Bear!

Another collaboration, this time with Pr Fanie Pelletier from Sherbrooke University.

It must be repeatable or it doesn't count.

Supplementary material

Actually, no he isn't.

St. Thomas is a popular biblical figure among many scientists because he needed proof to be convinced of a miracle, but to the Catholic church he's actually the patron saint of architects.

I still like the guy's attitude!

Verify your identity

PENGUINS!

Another fun collaboration with a research scientist, this time Dr. Stéphanie Jenouvrier from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Thanks, Stéphanie! I loved working on penguins!

You can read the associated paper here.

Preaching to the choir

Bear necessities! (our 1,000th cartoon!)

Some more science!

This comic presents the conclusions of the following scientific paper :

Hunting regulation favors slow life histories in a large carnivore
by Joanie Van de Walle,
Gabriel Pigeon,
Andreas Zedrosser,
Jon E. Swenson
and
Fanie Pelletier.

NATURE COMMUNICATIONS | (2018)9:1100
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-03506-3

(Script by Joanie and I; art by yours truly).

No respect for their elders!!!

(previous episodes of "VIRUSES OF THE APOCALYPSE" can be seen here,  here and  here!)

Sons accelerate maternal aging!

Our bighorn sheep are back!

The cartoon presented below presents the conclusion of a recent study on these magnificent animals:

Sons accelerate maternal aging in a wild mammal

by

Mathieu Douhard,
Marco Festa-Bianchet
&
Fanie Pelletier

PNAS March 3, 2020 117 (9) 4850-4857

Carbon sink

Rise of the machines

The goose and the gander

That sinking feeling that we are doomed...