September 9, 2025 by
Kiran Champatsingh
Associate Professor Njal Rollinson appeared on the fall premiere episode of Quirks & Quarks, talking about what he and his students got up to in the field over the summer in Algonquin Park. This summer Njal and his students found that salamanders do in fact vocalize (a finding that seems to have only been touched on in an obscure paper in the 70s), and that baby turtles start vocalizing to each other in the nest before they hatch. This research is part of two different long-term studies to understand how the environment and climate change affects populations, and how organisms adapt.