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Anthropogenic Light and Noise as Sensory Pollutants and New Selection Pressures

May 17, 2019May 17, 2019 hannah.hoogerwoerd17UncategorizedLeave a Comment on Anthropogenic Light and Noise as Sensory Pollutants and New Selection Pressures

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…

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Wondering About Whiskers

May 10, 2019 sara.sheffer16WhiskersLeave a Comment on 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…

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Dogs, Neuroethology, and the Next Directions in Research

May 5, 2019May 5, 2019 cassidyhDomesticationLeave a Comment on 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…

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More Whiskers Underwater

May 4, 2019May 4, 2019 sara.sheffer16WhiskersLeave a Comment on 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…

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Steroid Hormones and Monogamy – A Complex Relationship

April 30, 2019May 1, 2019 taylor.hill17Monogamy, UncategorizedLeave a Comment on Steroid Hormones and Monogamy – A Complex Relationship

In the last post, the social implications of the neuropeptides vasopressin and oxytocin were synthesized in order to question their role in the occurrence of monogamy. In this post, the focus will be on steroid hormones such as testosterone and…

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Interview With a Manatee Researcher!

April 26, 2019April 26, 2019 sara.sheffer16WhiskersLeave a Comment on Interview With a Manatee Researcher!

This week, we will be talking about manatee vibrissae and how different they are from some of the other species we have reported on so far. Much of the information here comes directly from a researcher who studies animal behavior…

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An Olfactory World

April 21, 2019 cassidyhDomestication1 Comment on An Olfactory World

During the past two weeks, we’ve discussed the evolution from wolf to dog, and the powerful communication that can exist between human and canine. Today, we’re going to dive deeper into the inner world of dogs by examining their olfactory…

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Rodent Vibrissae

April 21, 2019 sara.sheffer16Whiskers1 Comment on Rodent Vibrissae

Hello, fellow neuroethologists! This week, I will be discussing the whisker sensorimotor system in rodents, which has been studied quite well. Rodents collect the majority of the information they perceive from the environment through their whiskers by determining where and…

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Rabbit Vibrissae

April 14, 2019April 14, 2019 sara.sheffer16Whiskers2 Comments on Rabbit Vibrissae

Welcome back! This week’s blog post will focus on vibrissae in rabbits. The brains of rabbits contain two complete maps of the entire body surface, both of which are in the somatosensory cortex of the parietal cortex (Gould 1986). The…

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Whiskers in Cats: An Introduction

April 8, 2019April 14, 2019 sara.sheffer16WhiskersLeave a Comment on Whiskers in Cats: An Introduction
Brown tabby cat with pronounced whiskers looks up at a camera with wide green eyes.

Whiskers, or facial vibrissae, function primarily as a replacement or supplement to short-distance vision by detecting forces and vibrations around them (Williams and Kramer 2010). Each whisker acts as a transducer, converting mechanical information about the environment into an electrical…

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