From: “Ambient temperature correlates with geographic variation in body size of least horseshoe bats”, M. Wang, K. Chen, D. Guo, B. Luo, W. Wang, H. Gao, Y. Liu, J. Feng (2020), Current Zoology zoaa004 https://doi.org/10.1093/cz/zoaa004 One of the most interesting and frequently recurring problems in biology is how diversity within species. Under natural selection you’d …
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Predicting what a moth sounds like – just by looking
From: “Characteristics of tiger moth (Erebidae: Arctiinae) anti-bat sounds can be predicted from tymbal morphology”, N.J. Dowdy and W.E. Conner (2019) Frontiers in Zoology 16(45) https://doi.org/10.1186/s12983-019-0345-6 In the 19th and early 20th Centuries insect-collecting was a fairly popular hobby amongst well-off ladies and gentlemen with spare time on their hands. When a particularly prolific or …
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