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Harvard celebrates the goofy side of science
Darkfrog submitted, created time 1 month 2 weeks (www.nature.com)
The Ig Nobel prizes were given out last Thursday. Winners included the team that showed that a stripper's ovulatory cycle affected her tips (economics) and some folks who taught slime molds to solve mazes (cognitive). The archaeology prize went to a team who documented armadillos messing up their dig site. As to whether they found a way to keep the little dudes out ...not mentioned.
The evening culminated with "Win a date with Benoît Mandelbrot." 
Wind Turbines Don't Make Birds Fly the Coop
sea-maid submitted, created time 1 month 2 weeks (sciencenow.sciencemag.org)
A study finds that, despite concerns, offshore wind farms are largely not harmful to seashore or migrating birds. The presence of wind farms affected only one in twenty-three species. Although researchers warn not to extrapolate these results to inland birds, there seems to be little fear. The article mentions, in passing, that the wind farms are, however, dangerous to bats.
Researchers discover that growing up too fast may mean dying young in honey bees
sea-maid submitted, created time 1 month 3 weeks (www.biologynews.net)
Reactive oxygen species (ROS) occur as a by-product of aerobic metabolism and impair cellular function by damaging proteins, nucleotides and lipids. Organisms possess a variety of anti-oxidant mechanisms to mitigate the effects of ROS, and the oxidative stress model of aging and senescence suggests that physiological performance declines with age due to lifetime accrual of ROS-induced damage and progressively limited anti-oxidant capacity
Mutualism alters fish behavior
Darkfrog submitted, created time 1 month 3 weeks (www.nature.com)
A type of fish called the cleaner wrasse seems to haev a calming effect on local predators. The wrasse eat parasites off the scales of larger fish and even provide what Nature writers have called "a calming massage" with their fins. In return, the client fish keep returning to the wrasses' territory to provide them with more food.
However, what researchers have recently noticed is that client fish stop hunting each other while in wrasse territory--even while they are waiting to be served.
Lawsuit puts sea bass experiments on hold
Darkfrog submitted, created time 3 months 2 weeks (www.nature.com)
Any Dr. Evil fans out there? FIsh farmers' attempts to train sea-bass (no note is given as to whether they are ill-tempered) have been halted by a lawsuit.
The Food and Water Watch has had a temporary injunction issued, claiming that there has not been enough investigation as to whether the food cage to be used in the experiment will not pollute surrounding waters. Fine with me. Investigation is good. We should all know the risks, because there are GOING to be risks.
Overly furry secret agents were in no danger, though
Marine biologists interpret whale sounds
sea-maid submitted, created time 3 months 3 weeks (www.nature.com)
The splashes, barks and grunts of baleen whales carry much more meaning than biologists thought, according to the latest survey of the marine mammals.
The scientists behind the study say that these noises could be the ideal characteristics for conservationists to monitor to understand the growing impact of noises made by humans on the underwater environment.
sea-maid submitted, created time 3 months 4 weeks (sciencenow.sciencemag.org)
Researchers have spent decades trying to understand the confusing array of sleep patterns found in mammals. A donkey typically snoozes for just three hours a day, for instance, and armadillos and bats can be dead to the world for twenty hours a day. To explain the differences, scientists have offered a slew of theories, ranging from the idea that smaller animals need more sleep to conserve energy and maintain body temperature to the need to avoid predators.
The dog: a biologist's best friend
jerry submitted, created time 4 months 6 days (www.current-biology.com)
In your interactions with dogs you have likely wondered: do dogs recognize each other and different people? How sensitive is a dog's nose and what is their vision like? How good are dogs at finding their way home? What can a dog learn from another dog? Do dogs know what you are trying to say? Do they know what you are thinking? When did dogs start living with humans and why? Where did dogs originate? What are the differences between breeds? Whether one is a behavioral geneticist, a population biologist, a psychologist, an anthropologist or just a dog lover
Ultrasonic frogs show hyperacute phonotaxis to female courtship calls
kavin submitted, created time 6 months 1 week (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
Here the authors show that before ovulation, gravid females of O. tormota emit calls that are distinct from males' advertisement calls, having higher fundamental frequencies and harmonics and shorter call duration. In the field and in a quiet, darkened indoor arena, these female calls evoke vocalizations and extraordinarily precise positive phonotaxis (a localization error of
Monkeys tune in to your way of thinking
DanyC submitted, created time 9 months 2 weeks (www.newscientist.com)
Vittorio Gallese of the University of Parma, Italy, has found that macaques can predict the future actions of others, casting doubt on the long-held idea that monkeys cannot understand other beings as agents with their own perspectives and intentions.
That's interesting for us to know how they make sense of future.
Canine Behavioral Genetics: Pointing Out the Phenotypes and Herding up the Genes
Sue Wu submitted, created time 10 months 1 week (www.ajhg.org)
"An astonishing amount of behavioral variation is captured within the more than 350 breeds of dog recognized worldwide. Inherent in observations of dog behavior is the notion that much of what is observed is breed specific and will persist, even in the absence of training or motivation."
Voyeurs put male fish off their ideal mate
snoopy submitted, created time 11 months 2 weeks (technology.newscientist.com)
An interesting research was carried out by some researchers these days. That says mating fish don't like an audience. If there’s another male spying on them, they change their mind about which female they prefer.
Researcher Plath thinks that fishes act like this to avoid sperm competition. Another possible explanation would be that the desire to fight a competitor distracts the very fishes from their true mate preference, although Plath considers this less likely
Antioxidants can change fish behaviour
jane2007 submitted, created time 1 year 2 weeks (www.nature.com)
Antioxidants are all the rage, with research suggesting that they may help to prevent cancer, strokes and heart disease. Now a study highlights how these oxygen-mopping compounds affect more than just cellular health: they also seem to effect behaviour.
Strongest animal in the world: a mite
Levator submitted, created time 1 year 2 months (jeb.biologists.org)
In this article, Michael Heethoff and Lars Koerner from the Department of Evolutionary Biology of Invertebrates (Universtiy of Tuebingen) in Germany investigated the holding and pulling forces generated by claws of the oribatid mite Archegozetes longisetosus (Chelicerata, Acari) on substrates with different roughness. They found a significant positive correlation of surface roughness and the forces generated. Mites produced holding forces on horizontal rough surfaces of almost 1200 times their weight
Why Female Deer Like A Stag To Be A Big Noise In The Forest
cappuccion submitted, created time 1 year 5 months (www.sciencedaily.com)
Impressive antlers may be the most eye-catching attribute of the male red deer, but it's the quality of a stag's mating call that attracts the female of the species, a new study from the University of Sussex has discovered.
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