September 2021
![ʻAkiapōlāʻau (Hemignathus wilsoni) is an endangered Hawaiʻi honeycreeper species](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2021-09/Picture1.jpg?itok=JFZeYRWn)
September 29, 2021
Dr. Katherine McClure, a quantitative disease ecologist, has been working with Birds, Not Mosquitoes as a Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability postdoctoral fellow with the Cornell Wildlife Health Center to develop and evaluate incompatible insect technique (IIT) release strategies to help save Hawai‘i’s native bird populations from avian malaria.
![Ig Nobel prize for rhino tranportation video screenshot](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2021-09/Ig%20Nobel%20prize%20for%20rhino%20tranportation%20spotlight%20video%20thumbnail.png?itok=tKALhxZr)
Video
September 22, 2021
Watch the announcement of this year's Ig Nobel Transportation Prize, awarded to a Cornell-led team for their research on whether it's safer for rhinos to be transported upside-down or on their side.
![Rhino being hung upside down for transportation](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2021-09/210312174923-12-rhino-airlift-namibia-exlarge-169.jpg?itok=Ur5tk0Q4)
September 22, 2021
A Cornell-led study that hung rhinoceroses upside down to see what effect it had on the animals to aid conservation efforts has been awarded one of this year's Ig Nobel prizes.
![A Black-footed ferret shown looking back](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2021-09/Black-footed%20ferret%20news%20thumbnail.jpg?itok=gtCymCm6)
September 07, 2021
By testing easier-to-study coyotes, Cornell researchers, in collaboration with the Cheyenne River Sioux tribe, have identified a range of lethal diseases threatening black-footed ferrets – one of the most endangered animals in North America.
![Red fox with kit by Christine Bogdanowicz news thumbnail](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2021-08/Red%20fox%20with%20kit%20by%20Christine%20Bogdanowicz%20news%20thumbnail.jpeg?itok=VAWB6xED)
September 03, 2021
There is astonishing diversity in how mammal mothers undergo pregnancy and birth. Dr. Alexander Travis, a Cornell reproductive biologist, describes how 'the birds and the bees' work for these unique animals.