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Specialized sensory systems, perfected over years of evolution, enable animals to exploit various information in the environment. By extracting salient information from their surroundings, animals can adjust their behavior in ways that promote their survival and reproduction. Behaviors such as … Continue reading
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Animals’ mating displays are often multimodal which means that they incorporate different signaling types that include acoustic, visual, chemical, and seismic signals. Depending on environmental conditions, the males of certain species can adapt their multimodal signaling by alternating between signals. … Continue reading
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Like other animals, humans use their different sensory modalities to communicate information to one other, and the ways in which these sensory systems are used for communication can change depending on the situation. One scenario that occurs across many organisms … Continue reading
A variety of mammals and birds rely on alarm calls as a common defensive strategy to alert others to danger. Alarm calls vary in the information they carry about a certain threat. Calls can carry information about predator type, size, … Continue reading
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Do fish favor one side of their bodies for certain behaviors? This might be a question you’ve never considered, but it makes sense to think about. Using the example of humans, a (sometimes problematic) tendency that we exhibit even when … Continue reading
