Male bower birds attract potential mates by building an elaborate bower consisting of a tunnel-like avenue of twigs arranged in a series of arches and two court areas decorated with objects such as shells, pebbles, bones and even pieces of glass or plastic. When a female is attracted into the avenue the male flies into […]
A South American cactus named Espostoa frutescens is pollinated by bats. As bats are active at night, how do bats find flowers in dark? Some bat-pollinated flowers are able to reflect bats’ echolocating sounds, so scientists at Nuremberg Zoo, Germany and Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands, studied these cacti to see if they had any special […]
Secret of cicada sound revealed, according to reports in ScienceDaily 30 May 2013 and ScienceNOW 4 June 2013. Anyone who lives in a region where cicadas emerge en masse in early summer knows what an ear-splitting din they can make. A team of U.S. Naval researchers has been investigating how such a small creature can […]