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Jul05

…and now for some lock-picking cockatoos

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random science video

Yesterday, Alex Kacelnik published yet another fascinating discovery – one of many over the years out of his lab. This time, they show how birds can pick even five consecutive locks to get to a food reward: According to the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

Posted on July 5, 2013 at 13:23 Comments Off on …and now for some lock-picking cockatoos
May30

Dissecting a fly’s course control system

In: researchblogging • Tags: , , , , ,
researchblogging

Until 1986, it was thought that so-called optomotor responses, i.e., the tendency of all animals and humans to follow moving visual stimuli with their eyes or their bodies, were a prerequisite for gaze or trajectory stabilization: whenever the scenery in […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

Posted on May 30, 2013 at 10:18 Comments Off on Dissecting a fly’s course control system
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