A Bird’s-Eye View of a Technicolor World
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A Bird’s-Eye View of a Technicolor World
Scientists have a devised a new video system that reveals how animals see color, and us.
Is the sky truly blue?
Color is in the eye of the beholder
Enter animal-vision video
How a bird sees a rainbow
How a mouse sees a rainbow
How a bird sees a butterfly
How a honeybee sees us
How a honeybee sees a caterpillar
Exploring the world in living color
Emily Anthes is a science reporter, writing primarily about animal health and science. She also covered the coronavirus pandemic. More about Emily Anthes
Explore the Animal Kingdom
A selection of quirky, intriguing and surprising discoveries about animal life.
Anophthalmus hitleri is a small, amber-colored beetle native to a few damp caves in Slovenia.
It has one glaring problem: its name.
Winston, an older gorilla, is getting enviable medical treatment. Now his keepers must confront an issue that vexes doctors:
How much intervention is too much?
A new study of chimpanzees and bonobos,
who can still remember faces after a quarter century, suggests that long-term memories may have been vital to our own evolution.
Scientists found that dolphins
have an ability to sense electric fields, which may help them hunt and navigate the seas.
Penguins are champion power nappers. Over the course of a single day, they fall asleep thousands of times, each bout a few seconds long, a study
has found.
After decades of observations, scientists
have discovered that some chimpanzees go through menopause, too. And bonobos are challenging the notion that humans are the only primates capable of group-to-group alliances.
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