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Aquatic animals commonly use chemical cues to gain sensory information. These cues mediate many of the animals’ behavior and interactions such as reproduction, foraging strategies and predator detection. Many studies have been done to investigate the role of olfaction in … Continue reading
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Birds use calls and songs for a variety of purposes, including attracting mates, communicating with each other, and marking territory. Birds also respond to the calls of others, and use calls to identify each other and communicate information about themselves … Continue reading
Have you ever focused on one conversation at a noisy party? How is it possible that you were able to filter out the other conversations around you? In a theoretical paper published in 2015, Larimer et al. proposed that our … Continue reading
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Catsharks are warm water dwelling sharks that tend to live near coral reefs and along the ocean floor, though some species prefer environments of greater depth. They are smaller sharks and grow to be a little over two feet long, and as their … Continue reading
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Echolocation is type of sensory system in which an animal can generate biosonar signals to detect and locate objects. Hunting bats are one of the mammals that utilize this system in order to locate prey. Daubenton’s bats, Myotis daubentonii, are … Continue reading
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It’s easy to look at the bright colors on the cleaner shrimp Lysmata amboinensis (pictured below) and assume that it appears that way to its fellow shrimp. But shrimp eyes do not work the same as ours, and research suggests that these … Continue reading
