Usually, the orientation behaviour of migratory butterfly/moth species are tested when tethered in flight simulators at ground level. In this new study, monarch butterflies are tethered on a balloon to test their orientation behaviour at a height of 30 m. 🦋 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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🎉 Congratulations to @rodento.bsky.social 🎓 who successfully defended her thesis "Habitat Geometry and the Development of Social Phenotypes in the Desert Locust" 🦗 supervised by @zamakany.bsky.social

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The legend Heiner Römer, who was among the first to do intracellular electrophysiological recordings in the field. His work showed that auditory tuning curves measured in the lab poorly predict communication outdoors. link.springer.com/article/10.1... At the sensory ecology course in Lund.

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Learning over an extended childhood has been fundamental to survival during human evolutionary history. Researchers show how Sumatran orangutans use their 8 years of dependency to master a broad diet, necessary for independent survival. Read more in this week’s issue: https://scim.ag/4xDjOfh

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Congratulations Max for a successful defense!🎉📓 In his master's thesis under the supervision of our postdoc @danielhummel.bsky.social, Max Widmann explored how the neural activity of motion integration circuits in the anterior hindbrain changes during the first days of larval development. 🐟🧠

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