by 2019 Class | Oct 19, 2020 | Sensory systems
By Meg Dye ’21 Long seen as symbols of death, trickery, and bewitchment, bats have been soaring through night skies and swooping through the most eerie and sinister aspects of human storytelling and imagination for centuries. Though most often noted for...
by 2019 Class | Oct 19, 2020 | Communication
By Roya Best ’22 A yawn, also known as an oscitation, is defined as a reflex that is the simultaneous inhaling of air and the stretching of one’s eardrums as one’s mouth opens, followed by an exhale of breath. A yawn is slow, followed by an instance of...
by 2019 Class | Oct 19, 2020 | Communication
By Jack Sherritt ’22 When you think of bears you typically think of bears as large, passive, lonely animals when angry are very ferocious. They usually communicate by growls, huffs, or barks. Bears also mark trees by clawing or biting. However, in this study it...
by 2019 Class | Oct 19, 2020 | Social behavior
By Natalie Cady ’22 Much beneath the depths of our ocean surfaces remains a mystery, spiraling curiosity of the social interactions among marine animals. Anthropogenic impacts including, but not limited to, pollution, entanglement, and direct harvesting have...
by 2019 Class | Oct 19, 2020 | Social behavior
By Ava-Rose Beech ’21 Researchers find that large concentrations of oil in the oceans are doing more than just polluting the waters, but actually altering group dynamics and social behaviors of fish. In April of 2010, people all over the world were directly...
