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Nick and Aaron Present at the Neuroscience and Behavior Symposisum

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Classes have just ended, which means we have lots of opportunities to talk about our research.  Nick and Aaron gave a talk today at the Neuroscience and Behavior Symposium about their work on social dominance and black-capped chickadee vocalizations.  They’ll … Continue reading

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Let Me Be Heard! Invasive species compete for acoustic space

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An invasive species can create havoc in an environment and are one of the leading threats to native wildlife. They grow and reproduce quickly and often negatively impact the ecosystem through direct threats such as predation, out-competing native species for … Continue reading

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Ant guards are duped by aphid predator mimics, but only with some previous practice

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Ants rely on chemical information to make sense of their environment. This includes everything from recognizing other ants to communicating about food sources. Ants are highly social creatures, and are very successful at using and shaping their environment. This particular … Continue reading

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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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Blind Cavefish Sheds Light on Evolution

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Imagine a fish that can lose its eyes depending on the environment in which is it born. Astyanax mexicanus, reared in the limestone caves of Northeast Mexico, exhibits eyes degeneration, small eye sockets, and albinism. However, this phenomenon is not … Continue reading

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An Ant’s Journey: How the wood ant uses its surroundings to guide its path

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It’s certainly no secret that ants lead a busy life. From foraging to fighting off predators, knowing how to navigate is very important for these tiny insects. Researchers Joseph L Woodgate, Cornelia Buehlmann, and Thomas S. Collett of the University … Continue reading

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Superb Lyrebirds or Superb Liarbirds? Female Oscines Possess Elaborate Mimetic Vocal Displays

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Superb Lyrebirds or Superb Liarbirds? Female Oscines Possess Elaborate Mimetic Vocal Displays In the bird world, it is a well-known fact that much of the elaborate vocalizations of males is due to sexual selection. If you’re a male, you better … Continue reading

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Penguins can Introduce Themselves as Well: Vocal Individuality in Penguin Contact Calls

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Michael Kim Penguins can Introduce Themselves as Well: Vocal Individuality in Penguin Contact Calls Communication plays a pivotal role in all living species. Functions of communication can span from signaling for detection to displaying complex mating vocalizations.Vocalizations of bird species … Continue reading

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A Quick Lesson in Raven Grammar

From seemingly simple statements to the sophistications of poetry, human language is incredibly complex. There is enormous unconscious cognitive effort behind extracting precise information from speech, which is ultimately a series of sounds varying in frequency, intensity and timing. Meaning … Continue reading

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Is This My Egg? Links Between Brood Parasitism and and Egg Pattern Diversity

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For many avian species, raising young is a very large investment.  Instead of doing it themselves, some birds use a method called brood parasitism, leaving an egg or multiple eggs in a host bird’s nest to be raised there.  This … Continue reading

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