There is no alternative way to receive information about our environment besides our senses, and only from our senses are we able to act in our environment. This is a consistent law of life on Earth, affecting the lives of…
Month: May 2019
Wondering About Whiskers
Welcome back for the final post in this series about the neuroethology of whiskers! The goal of this post is to propose some research questions based on the information gathered in these last five weeks. As I was reading, a…
Hopkins et al.
Hello all in today’s blog post I am going to cover a few pioneers who work on electric fish and what sort of research they are doing! You can’t talk about electric fish research unless you talk about Dr. Carl…
The Shape of Water
Hello all welcome back to the blog! In today’s blog I will be talking about mating behaviors in electric fish and how climate change may affect breeding success in these species. Mating behaviors can involve many different types of social…
How Do They Compare-asite
The amount of taxonomic nomenclature in this article is a bit excessive I’m not going to lie
To Eat or Not to Eat
Hello all I am very excited to introduce you all to prey capture in electric fish and how climate change may affect identification and response time when capturing prey. Many species of both strong and weakly electric fish relay…
Dogs, Neuroethology, and the Next Directions in Research
Since the beginning of this blog, we have discussed the ways evolution, selective breeding, biology, and neuroscience have combined to create the most popular pet in the world. From their earliest start as a domesticated species to the many active…
More Whiskers Underwater
Welcome back! This week, we dive into the underwater world as perceived by vibrissae yet again, but this time we will be discussing pinnipeds: seals, sea lions, and walruses. California sea lions are able to discriminate differences in sizes to…
So… Should Humans Be Monogamous?
In all of the previous posts, I have refrained from using information and examples from human studies. This is because it is crucial to understand why monogamy might occur evolutionarily and how it occurs in other species before attempting to…
Recap – Everything We’ve Learned So Far
During this five week blogging period, we have discussed insects with cognitive maps and landmarks, birds with magnetoreception, mammals with path integration in the absence of landmarks, and fish with hydrostatic pressure. For our final blog post, we will be…