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You’re walking down the street and suddenly come face to face with a creature you’ve never seen before. It’s doesn’t look (or smell) like anything you ever remember learning about. How do you react? Is this creature friend or foe? … Continue reading
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Understanding and managing the spread of infectious diseases is a huge focus scientific research. Studies regarding infectious diseases concentrate on a rang of topics, including transmission, genetics, and immunity. Eakin et al. investigated the consequences of individual host behavior on … Continue reading
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Birds have been shown to use their olfactory system for predator detection and orientation, and also social and foraging tasks. They have fully functioning olfactory systems and each individual bird has a distinct body odor. This study used carrion crows, … Continue reading
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Mimicry in the animal kingdom includes behaviors or features of one group (species or sex within a species) that imitates another group in order to gain some kind of advantage, whether that be protection, sexual attraction, or some other benefit. Intraspecific sexual … Continue reading
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Brood parasitic birds lay their eggs in the nests of host birds so as to avoid raising their own young, in turn, saving the energy and time associated with rearing offspring by passing this responsibility off to a host bird. … Continue reading
