Male fish deceive watching rivals about their top choice of females
Category: Animal behaviour
Atlantic mollies will shift their attentions to smaller, less preferred females if other males are watching.
Posted by Ed Yong at 12:00 PM • 2 Comments •
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July 29, 2008
Tiny treeshrews chug alcoholic nectar without getting drunk
Category: Animals
Pen-tailed treeshrews drink the alcoholic nectar of the bertam palm at levels that would intoxicate a human.
Posted by Ed Yong at 12:00 PM • 6 Comments •
July 28, 2008
Language evolution witnessed in lab experiments
Category: Language
Cunning experiments show how languages 'adapt' to become more structured and easily learned as they're passed on.
Posted by Ed Yong at 5:00 PM • 9 Comments •
July 26, 2008
Bats: compasses, tongues and memories
Category: Bats
In a (very) loose tie-in with the recent release of the Dark Knight, it's Bat Weekend at Not Exactly Rocket Science, where I'll be reposting a few old but relevant pieces. If you were a biologist looking for astounding...
Posted by Ed Yong at 12:00 PM • 1 Comments •
July 25, 2008
Parasites outweigh top predators and castrators do best of all
Category: Parasites
A substantial portion of living tissue in river estuaries is under the control of parasites.
Posted by Ed Yong at 8:46 AM • 20 Comments •
July 23, 2008
Spread the word...
Category: Personal
Soooo.... When I started this blog, the intention was to try and use well-written articles on cool discoveries to get people who wouldn't normally read science blogs to be interested in science. I've now been writing for almost two years...
Posted by Ed Yong at 10:52 AM • 108 Comments •
July 22, 2008
Fishing bans protect coral reefs from devastating predatory starfish
Category: Corals
Completely banning fishing on the Great Barrier Reef has unexpectedly prevented outbreaks of crown-of-thorns starfish
Posted by Ed Yong at 5:46 PM • 2 Comments •
July 21, 2008
Social spiders do better when hunting with relatives
Category: Spiders
Cooperatively hunting spiders feed more efficiently with family members than strangers, providing support for kin selection theory
Posted by Ed Yong at 5:00 PM • 5 Comments •
July 19, 2008
The mantis shrimp has the world's fastest punch
Category: Animals
Its claw hits with the force of a rifle bullet and boils the water in front of it.
Posted by Ed Yong at 12:00 PM • 14 Comments •
July 17, 2008
Singing fish reveal shared origins of vertebrate vocals
Category: Animal communication
The grunts of toadfishes are driven by a network of neurons that's conserved in all vocal vertebrates
Posted by Ed Yong at 2:00 PM • 2 Comments •
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