Monthly Archives: June 2015

Disruptive Coloration and Prey Recognition

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Information acquired by animals from the environment, or from other individuals, reduces uncertainty about the environment, other individuals, or a future event, which allows the animal to act with confidence. Predators who use vision as a main tool of hunting … Continue reading

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Gotcha! Investigating the effects of visual features used for trapping prey in carnivorous plants

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Living organisms need to have consistent and reliable methods for procuring food in order to survive any situation. A steady food supply ensures survival not only of an individual organism, but also its offspring, as a healthy individual is more likely … Continue reading

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Using sound to mask sex: auditory mimicry found in Chinese cicadas

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One of the most interesting aspects of sensory and evolutionary ecology is the concept of mimicry between or within species. Mimicry is when a species has evolved a trait that allows it to imitate the appearance, behavior, scent, or sound … Continue reading

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The Millbrook School’s Trevor Zoo: A chance to explore animal behaviour, physiology and conservation

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This semester I am doing fieldwork at the Trevor Zoo and thinking about how zoos are related to behaviour and conservation. The Trevor Zoo is a small but diverse and well-run collection of animals located at the Millbrook School in … Continue reading

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Implications of between-individual variation of cone photoreceptor densities in house sparrow visual systems

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Evolution through natural selection spends on variation of a trait within a species. Variation of a certain trait that has implications for Darwinian fitness within a species can lead to a population level shift towards one phenotypic realization of the trait over … Continue reading

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Our Global Big Day

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On May 9th, Dr. Mary Ann Cunningham (from the Earth Science Department) and I headed out to the Vassar Farm and Ecological Preserve to participate in the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s Global Big Day (read more about that here).  We … Continue reading

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