From shells to hives to holes in the ground, most animals have a place to call home. And today, we're paying them all a visit! So open up, cause Science is knocking and it needs to use your bathroom!
From shells to hives to holes in the ground, most animals have a place to call home. And today, we're paying them all a visit! So open up, cause Science is knocking and it needs to use your bathroom!
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[Trivia Question]
Machine learning saving kilowatt-hours
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7765259/
[Fact Off]
Cichlid fish dream houses (for conservation)
https://www.mpg.de/14854482/3d-printing-cichlids
Devil’s garden - lemon ant & rainforest tree symbiosis
https://news.stanford.edu/news/2005/september28/devil-092805.html
https://www.nature.com/articles/437495a
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/606022?journalCode=an
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2124481/
https://www.jstor.org/stable/2459556
[Ask the Science Couch]
Estimate of how many animals there are
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.1001127
https://academic.oup.com/sysbio/article/61/5/871/1734723
Animals that are parasites
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2016.0324
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/animals-evolution-parasites-ed-yong
https://www.audubon.org/news/the-brilliant-ways-parasitic-birds-terrorize-their-victims
Constructing homes (natural & artificial)
https://www.naturepl.com/pictures/pdfs/NPL_Architecture.pdf
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34269510/
[Butt One More Thing]
Snail shell poop + African swine fever virus
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35151121/
https://www.carnegiemnh.org/science/mollusks/dietbehavior.html