Every Elephant Has Its Own Name, Study Suggests
An elephant that humans named Donatella perks up when she hears a recording of a sound that researchers believe corresponds to her name.CreditCredit...Michael Pardo What’s in a name? It’s more than a sound people make to get your attention — it’s a seemingly universal hallmark of human society and language, the specifics of which set us apart from our fellow animals. Now, scientists say they have
The Paradox of the Lizard Tail, Solved (Published 2022)
When choosing between life and limb, many animals willingly sacrifice the limb. The ability to drop appendages is known as autotomy, or self-amputation. When backed into a corner, spiders let go of legs, crabs drop claws and some small rodents shed clumps of skin. Some sea slugs will even decapitate themselves to rid themselves of their parasite-infested bodies. But lizards may be the best-known u
A Swirling Vortex Is No Match for This Deep-Sea Sponge (Published 2021)
At the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, cylindrical clusters of the glass sponge Euplectella aspergillum jut upward like skyscrapers in the deep sea. Some house tiny shrimp, to whom an 11-inch sponge is essentially a high-rise. And the sponge’s glass skeleton is certainly a feat of architecture, comprising a geometric latticework that gives the sponge the illusion of being wrapped in lace. Yet it is e
Let Us Now Praise Tiny Ants (Published 2021)
It is telling, the entomologist Eleanor Spicer Rice writes in her introduction to a new book of ant photography by Eduard Florin Niga, that humans looking downward on each other from great heights like to describe the miniaturized people we see below us as looking “like ants.” By this we mean faceless, tiny, swarming: an indecipherable mass stripped of individuality or interest. Intellectually, th
Platypuses Glow Under Blacklight. We Have No Idea Why. (Published 2020)
This composite made from images supplied by the researcher shows a platypus under visible light, left, and under ultraviolet light and yellow-filtered UV light.Credit...Jonathan Martin/Northland College When last we checked on the platypus, it was confounding our expectations of mammals with its webbed feet, duck-like bill and laying of eggs. More than that, it was producing venom. Now it turns ou
Split-Sex Animals Are Unusual, Yes, but Not as Rare as You’d Think (Published 2019)
Top left, a male blue morpho butterfly; top middle, a female. The remainder are gynandromorphic, with both male and female characteristics.Credit...Nipam H. Patel All serious butterfly collectors remember their first gynandromorph: a butterfly with a color and pattern that are distinctly male on one wing and female on the other. Seeing one sparks wonder and curiosity. For the biologist Nipam H. Pa
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The Loudest Bird in the World Has a Song Like a Pile Driver (Published 2019)
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