All Articles Tagged As: senses

Ultrasonic frogs can tune their ears to different frequencies (7/23/2008)

Researchers have discovered that a frog that lives near noisy springs in central China can tune its ears to different sound frequencies, much like the tuner on a radio can shift from one frequency to another. It is the only known example of an animal that can actively select what frequencies it hears. ...> Full Article

How birds spot the cuckoo in the nest (7/20/2008)

Cuckoo's detect imposters eggs' by determining UV reflectivity ...> Full Article

Do birds have a good sense of smell? (7/17/2008)

Birds don't just see and hear well, their sense of smell is also highly developed ...> Full Article

Eyeless but not blind: Light-sensing worms provide a new tool for the study of vision and eye disease (7/8/2008)

The tiny eyeless C. elegans roundworm, one of the most widely used animals in biological research, can detect flashes of light and responds to them by quickly wriggling away ...> Full Article

Primate's Scent Speaks Volumes (6/24/2008)

Lemur's scented name tag indicates kin relationships ...> Full Article

Female concave-eared frogs draw mates with ultrasonic calls (5/12/2008)

Frogs ability to home in on the sound call is astonishingly precise ...> Full Article

Seagulls: Are males the weaker sex? (5/12/2008)

Study says social context affects the sexes differently ...> Full Article

Female jumping spiders find ultraviolet B rays 'sexy' (5/3/2008)

Research provides the first evidence of an animal using ultraviolet B rays to communicate with other members of its species ...> Full Article

Echolocating bats use high power acoustics to detect prey (5/2/2008)

New scientific results show bats emitting more dB than a rock concert ...> Full Article

Are you looking at me? (4/30/2008)

Birds can tell if you are watching them - because they are watching you. ...> Full Article

Study Finds Mice Can Sense Oxygen Through Skin (4/18/2008)

Biologists at the University of California, San Diego have discovered that the skin of mice can sense low levels of oxygen and regulate the production of erythropoietin, or EPO, the hormone that stimulates our bodies to produce red blood cells and allows us to adapt to high-altitude, low-oxygen environments ...> Full Article

Mantis shrimp vision reveals new way that animals can see (3/24/2008)

Mantis shrimp can see the world in a way that had never been observed in any animal before, researchers report in the March 20th Current Biology, a Cell Press publication. The discovery-which marks the fourth type of visual system-suggests that the ability to perceive circular polarized light may lend mantis shrimp a secret mode of communication. ...> Full Article

Like sweets? You're more like a fruit fly than you think... (3/19/2008)

Similarities highlight environment's role in shaping evolution of taste preferences ...> Full Article

Researchers catch rats' twitchy whiskers in action (3/3/2008)

Rats use their whiskers in a way that is closely related to the human sense of touch: Just as humans move their fingertips across a surface to perceive shapes and textures, rats twitch their whiskers to achieve the same goal. Now, in a finding that could help further understanding of perception across species, MIT neuroscientists have used high-speed video to reveal rat whiskers in action and show the tiny movements that underlie the rat's perception of its tactile environment. ...> Full Article

Elephants can 'smell danger' (10/18/2007)

Elephants can tell whether a human is a friend or foe by their scent and colour of clothing. ...> Full Article