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Wild zebrafish are timid, but they become emboldened after interacting with bolder domesticated zebrafish. The fish use social learning to assess risk and adapt their behavior to the costs of. . . Read More

  Listen to my latest Note on Emerging Science on last week’s Living on Earth.  Scientists have discovered that ant colonies function like a giant immune system. When one ant. . . Read More

I have an Emerging Science Note on this week’s Living on Earth. Want to know what a male house mouse sings to lovely lady mice? Take a listen Read More

My latest blog post at AAAS Member Central is about a substance that fish emit when injured called schreckstoff – in German, it translates to ‘scary stuff.’ Scientists have known about its function as an alarm signal for a while, but now the chemistry of the. . . Read More