Boto dolphins woo females with chat-up vines
Category: Animal behaviour
New evidence suggests that botos carry and thrash random objects as a courtship ritual
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March 31, 2008
Category: Animal behaviour
New evidence suggests that botos carry and thrash random objects as a courtship ritual
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March 29, 2008
Category: Perception
People can learn to tell apart previously indistinguishable smells if one is paired with an electric shock.
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March 27, 2008
Category: Cephalopods
The beaks of Humboldt squid are engineered to have both immensely hard tips and very soft bases.
Posted by Ed Yong at 2:00 PM • 5 Comments •
Category: Personal
My first ever feature article has just been published in this week's issue of New Scientist. It's about the ways in which songbirds are coping with the noisy din of cities. Low-frequency urban noises mask the calls that they use...
Posted by Ed Yong at 8:00 AM • 3 Comments •
March 26, 2008
Category: Animal behaviour
Chimps gamble over rewards more frequently than bonobos, possibly because they rely on more uncertain food sources.
Posted by Ed Yong at 2:55 PM • 6 Comments •
March 25, 2008
Category: Climate change
Soybeans grown in high CO2 levels produce fewer defensive chemicals when attacked by beetles
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March 24, 2008
Category: Rotifers
Bdelloid rotifers tolerate 100x more radiation than humans, including doses that shatter their DNA into 1,000 pieces.
Posted by Ed Yong at 5:00 PM • 5 Comments •
March 23, 2008
Category: Personal
About a month ago, I migrated from the safe, stable climate of Wordpress to the unknown but promising habitat of ScienceBlogs. With four weeks having flown by, this seems like a good a point as any to have a bit...
Posted by Ed Yong at 10:00 AM • 13 Comments •
March 21, 2008
Category: Animal behaviour
Mantis shrimps are the only animals that see circularly polarised light and swap secret messages with it.
Posted by Ed Yong at 12:00 PM • 13 Comments •
March 20, 2008
Category: Psychology
Psychological experiments show that personal spending doesn't make people any happier but spending money on others does.
Posted by Ed Yong at 2:00 PM • 11 Comments •
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