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Month: March 2024

A yellow-faced bumblebee flies between purple sage flowers.
Animal behaviorCase Studies
Lauren Glevanik

Hive Minds: Bumblebees Collaborate to Learn Complex Behaviors

In a groundbreaking discovery, bumblebees have been shown to have a more sophisticated social culture than previously known. Bees could learn to solve a challenging puzzle through social interaction, demonstrating their ability to learn new and complex behaviors beyond their individual cognitive abilities. This study suggests that advanced social learning is not unique to humans, and encourages further exploration of collaboration and culture in the animal kingdom.

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Animal behaviorEnvironmental Science
Lauren Otolski

Shh! How Do Body Scales Protect Larger Moths from Echolocation?

Most of us have heard of camouflage, but what about acoustic camouflage? Moth scales may interfere with bats’ echolocation, helping to keep moths hidden from predators.

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Animal behaviorEcosystemsEnvironmental ScienceHuman Exposure and Public HealthToxicology
Renata de Mello

How Can Pesticides Affect the Development of Aquatic Life?

Agriculture uses pesticides to maintain continuous food production. But what is the effect of these chemicals on aquatic animals? With this in mind, researchers from Brazil collaborated to study the effect of one of the most used pesticides in the country on zebrafish.

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ClimateEnvironmental Science
Julia Bebout

How Can We Protect Salmon from Climate Warming? It Depends on the River

Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) are sensitive to changes in temperature. To survive, salmon must be adaptable, particularly in a warming and increasingly unpredictable climate. However, little is known about how this culturally valuable fish responds to dramatic changes in temperature.

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ClimateEcosystemsSustainabililty
PJ Donworth

The Trouble with Trawling: the Massive Carbon Footprint of Bottom Trawling

Terrible for biodiversity, bottom trawling also releases a huge amount carbon from the sea floor. Researchers have now quantified this obscure source of emissions, which rival those of Argentina!

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Animal behaviorClimateEcosystemsEnvironmental Science
Kevin Neumann

Climbing to Survive: Ants in the Rainforest Canopy May Be Resistant to Effects of Climate Change

Climate doesn’t just change across different biomes – even a single tree can have multiple climates. How do the canopy and forest floor differ in their climate, and how does this impact species at these locations?

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