June 2015: Lucy Nash from OUP, Dottybacks change colour to hide from prey, and moths that slow their brains down The Behavioural Ecology and Evolution Podcast (the Beepcast)
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- Natural Sciences
In this episode I discover that some species of coral reef fish change colour, and they do this to grab a sneaky meal! I also find out how moths find flowers in the dark. And in the scientific spark I talk
to Lucy Nash, who is commissioning editor for science at Oxford University
Press.
Download the MP3
Copyright © N Justin Marshall/Courtesy of University of Basel
Quicklinks:
Will Feeney's webpage
Fabio Cortesi's webpage
The dottyback paper in Current Biology
Hovering hawkmoth paper in science
In this episode I discover that some species of coral reef fish change colour, and they do this to grab a sneaky meal! I also find out how moths find flowers in the dark. And in the scientific spark I talk
to Lucy Nash, who is commissioning editor for science at Oxford University
Press.
Download the MP3
Copyright © N Justin Marshall/Courtesy of University of Basel
Quicklinks:
Will Feeney's webpage
Fabio Cortesi's webpage
The dottyback paper in Current Biology
Hovering hawkmoth paper in science