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- by Daniel7 |
As they migrate, butterflies and moths choose the winds they want to soar with, and change their body positions if they start drifting in the wrong direction.
This new finding suggests that insects may use some of the same strategies as birds for traveling long distances. Scientists have long thought that insects were simply at the mercy of the prevailing breeze.
The insights might help farmers prepare for a global warming-induced onslaught of migrating pest insects,... [Read More] |   | | Virgin Shark Birth Pups Living Long, Healthy Lives | |
- by Daniel7 |
Now a new study, published in the Journal of Heredity, concludes that sharks born to virgin mothers can survive over the long-term. Two daughters of a white-spotted bamboo shark virgin, for example, are now over five years old.
Scientists are still puzzled by this phenomenon, so Kevin Feldheim, manager of the Pritzker Laboratory for Molecular Systematics and Evolution at the Field Museum, also studied the shark sisters' genetic material to ensure that daddy wasn't just absent from... [Read More] | | | | Dolphin Intelligence Explained | |
- by Daniel7 |
Intelligence itself is a very loaded issue. It's difficult to compare one individual's brilliance with that of another within the same species, much less to attempt to compare intelligence among multiple species. Intelligence is just one component of a species' survival, so one can argue that spiders have evolved to be as smart as they need to be for their species to continue, rats are as brainy as they need to be, and so on.
If human standards for intelligence are applied to... [Read More] | | | | | » Stats |
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