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Stop and Smell the Flowers: Odor Discrimination in Moths

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The effects of anthropogenic noise and light pollution are increasingly being studied. Less studied is how anthropogenic odors can interfere with insects’ olfaction. Based on a study conducted by Riffel et al. (2014), the neural representations of important scents can … Continue reading

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Air-Borne Directions: How Olfactory Cues Help Gulls Navigate Long-Distance Migration

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Migratory birds fly over thousands of kilometers in order to visit breeding or non-breeding grounds every year. Once migrator birds become experienced adults, they develop the ability of true navigation. True navigation consists of picking up cues in unfamiliar areas … Continue reading

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The Survival of Hearing: How Physics Has Pressured Genetic Selection

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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