Dear all,
I imagine you are all working hard as well get in to the middle of the semester but remember, if you find something interesting whilst your literature searching for your coursework, or whilst taking a break, please do send it in, it’s great to hear from you.
Judith
There is a lot in the news about bovine TB and badgers, so I thought I’d put a few links about the current state
There is a good overview here http://www.nature.com/news/badger-battle-erupts-in-england-1.11595
accompanying Nature editorial http://www.nature.com/news/badger-away-1.11593
A computational model to look at the spread of bTBhttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/10/121018185919.htm
RSPB’s director of Conservation, Marin Harper’s bloghttp://www.rspb.org.uk/community/ourwork/b/martinharper/archive/2012/10/19/my-badger-nightmares.aspx
And the latest today: there will be changes in the movement of cattlehttp://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/oct/19/cattle-movement-bovine-tb-testing
Prehistoric autopsy – Alice Roberts didn’t really mention this yesterday but she has a new series starting on Monday at 9pm on BBC2, Prehistoric autopsy http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00xfdmt
How much did Homo sapiens and Homo neaderthalensis interbreed?http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/human_evolution/2012/10/neanderthal_and_denisovan_genetics_human_ancestors_interbred_with_extinct.single.html
Can we digest bone? http://huntgatherlove.com/content/can-you-digest-bone
Jurassic park will never happen http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/10/jurassic-park-dna-half-life/ – review
In Integrated Animal Behaviour this week I talked about learning and at the end we considered causal inference in the New Caledonian Crow, its tool use. You can see a film of tool use here (click on Movie S1)http://www.sciencemag.org/content/329/5998/1523/suppl/DC1
The same group recently published a study in PNAS which further explored thishttp://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/09/10/1208724109.abstract which had a lot of coverage on the internet, including this critical blog (which also has links to other internet stories, including the BBC)http://behaviourblog.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/the-parsimonious-crow.html
Or, perhaps they aren’t that clever, their heads are just the right shapehttp://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2012/10/09/smarter-than-the-average-crow-or-just-equipped-with-a-face-for-fishing/
Wildlife photographer of the year
Now on at the Natural History Museum http://www.nhm.ac.uk/visit-us/whats-on/temporary-exhibitions/wpy/
Also highlights on BBC website http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/19978529
And Nature website http://www.nature.com/news/creatures-on-camera-wildlife-photography-special-1.11599
Send me your links!
Posted By : Judith Lock