Editing 1946 in science (section)

==Biology==
* November 10 – [[Peter Scott (conservationist)|Peter Scott]] opens the [[WWT Slimbridge|Slimbridge Wetland Reserve]] in [[England]].
* December 2 – The [[International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling]] is signed in Washington, D.C. to "provide for the proper conservation of whale stocks and thus make possible the orderly development of the whaling industry" through establishment of the [[International Whaling Commission]].
* [[Karl von Frisch]] publishes "Die Tänze der Bienen" ("The dances of the bees").<ref>''Österreichische Zoologische Zeitschrift'' '''1''': pp. 1–48.</ref>
* [[Edmund Jaeger]] discovers and later documents, in [[The Condor (journal)|''The Condor'']],<ref>{{cite journal|last=Jaeger|first=Edmund C.|title=Further Observations on the Hibernation of the Poor-will|journal=[[The Condor (journal)|The Condor]]|date=May–June 1949|volume=51|series=3|pages=105–109|quote=Earlier I gave an account (Condor, 50, 1948:45) of the behavior of a Poor-will (''Phalaenoptilus nuttallinii'') which I found in a state of profound torpidity in the winter of 1946–47 in the [[Chuckawalla Mountains]] of the [[Colorado Desert]], California.|jstor=1365104|issue=3|oclc=478309773|issn=0010-5422|doi=10.2307/1365104}} (photographs by Kenneth Middleham)</ref> a state of extended [[torpor]], approaching [[hibernation]], in a bird, the [[common poorwill]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Hiltner|first=Nita|title=A Look Back|newspaper=[[The Press-Enterprise]]|location=Riverside, California|publisher=Enterprise Media|date=2011-02-20|url=http://www.pe.com/local-news/riverside-county/riverside/riverside-headlines-index/20110227-a-look-back.ece|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130131020614/http://www.pe.com/local-news/riverside-county/riverside/riverside-headlines-index/20110227-a-look-back.ece|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 31, 2013|access-date=2011-11-15}}</ref>