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Last June, Nichelle Thompson's landlord told her that he wanted his family to move into the Bronx apartment that she shared with her father, Richard Thompson, 63, and her two children, Katrina and Daniel Lopez, ages 14 and 6.
Unable to afford much more than her $500 rent, she began packing boxes, but did not know where the family would move. She could not have imagined that the photo albums and encyclopedias she had boxed in the kitchen would be the only belongings they would have by the end of the month. Or that by July they would be living in a shelter.
On June 30, Ms. Thompson said, she had a strange feeling. After setting up her children and father with a pizza for dinner, she returned to work for some over-time at Metropolitan Hospital, where she has been a patient escort for 17 years. Feeling uneasy, she kept calling home. ''Like eight times,'' she said.
Katrina asked what the calls were about and Ms. Thompson told her that she wanted to be sure they were all right. Katrina assured her they were: Daniel and her grandfather were watching television and she would be going to sleep. Ms. Thompson told her that she would be leaving for home in about 20 minutes. ''Before I could leave, she calls me back,'' Ms. Thompson recalled, ''hysterical and crying saying the house was on fire.''
Ms. Thompson arrived home on Rosedale Avenue to find that her children and father (and the pet rabbit Mr. Thompson had carried out) had escaped the blaze. A full investigation of the fire has not been completed, but Ms. Thompson said a firefighter on the scene told her it had been an electrical fire that started in a socket behind Katrina's bed when Mr. Thompson and Katrina, in separate rooms, used light switches at the same time.Continue reading the main story
Their apartment was destroyed and Ms. Thompson said they lost everything except what she had already packed for a move that was sitting in the kitchen.
Ms. Thompson and her husband -- the children's father -- separated four years ago after 14 years of marriage. Before the fire, she had already been stretching to make the $1,000 she earns each month cover the family's expenses and rent. Without money to absorb the loss of personal property and move into a new place, Ms. Thompson and her family stayed in a Red Cross-provided hotel room for five days. Then they moved to a shelter in the Bronx, where they have been ever since.
The winter is proving particularly difficult. ''You can't sleep in a shelter bed that's not yours,'' Ms. Thompson said. ''You have no privacy.''
Daniel attends Public School 50 in Manhattan, which, like Katrina's school in the Bronx, Intermediate School 98, is among the 10 community schools operated through a partnership between the New York City Board of Education and the Children's Aid Society, one of seven charities supported by The New York Times Neediest Cases Fund. These schools provide many family services -- including after-school programs, health screenings, legal advice and counseling -- on site.
When Katrina's guidance counselor at I.S. 98 learned of her family's situation she referred them to Paula Kim, a social worker there. Ms. Kim immediately drew on the Neediest Cases Fund, offering $200 for food and $300 for clothing for the children.
Ms. Thompson applied for public housing and is on a list with the New York Housing Authority, but hopes her family will soon ''have a place for ourselves that we can call home again and start fresh.''
Just before Christmas, Ms. Thompson took her children to a service at Times Square Church. She had $4 to last her several days. She bought two $1 hamburgers and a small order of French fries for the three to eat at McDonald's, and they went to church.
''I sat there and I prayed,'' Ms. Thompson said, explaining that she did not know how she was going to get through the week without money.
After the service they spoke with a woman behind them who, upon learning they were living in a shelter, placed $40 in Ms. Thompson's hand.
''There was an angel behind me,'' she said.
But she does not want to exist only on the kindness of others.
Ms. Thompson said she spoke to a woman at the shelter who has been there four years. She said the woman told her, ''If you leave you're going to have to pay rent.''
''I could see where she was going: she doesn't want to pay rent,'' Ms. Thompson said. ''I work. I want to pay rent.''
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Looking at The Death Tax as Government Revenues Lost
June 21, 2002
One factor cited by Senators in voting down repeal of the death tax last week was its impact on government revenues. Some of them expressed concern over the projected budget cost of more than $50 billion a year -- even though cost concerns didn't stop them when they passed the farm bill.
But some budget analysts say the death tax encourages behavior among the wealthy elderly which results in less -- not more -- federal revenues. In addition to encouraging estate planning, the tax reduces revenues by hurting the economy.
- Many wealthy individuals begin distributing assets long before they die to younger family members of lesser income in lower tax brackets.
- They may also establish various trusts aimed at keeping their money out of the hands of the federal tax collectors -- or give money to charities.
- B. Douglas Bernheim of Stanford University has written that the reduction in income tax revenue just from assets transferred before death may exceed the revenues raised by the estate tax.
- Further, the tax weakens incentives to save and invest -- with economists Gary and Aldona Robbins estimating that elimination of it would boost gross domestic product enough that, within 10 years, federal tax revenues would be higher than if the tax had been retained.
If these researchers are even half right, the death tax brings in nothing. If they are both fully correct, the tax will not bring in the projected $50 billion a year after 2010 -- it will lose $50 billion a year.
Source: Stephen J. Entin (Institute for Research on the Economics of Taxation), "Why the Death Tax Lives," Wall Street Journal, June 19, 2002.
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Willingness to Pay for Energy Conservation and Free-Ridership on Subsidization: Evidence from Germany
Understanding the determinants of home-efficiency improvements is significant to a range of energy policy issues, including the reduction of fossil fuel use and environmental protection. This paper analyzes retrofit choices by assembling a unique data set merging a nationwide household survey from Germany with regional data on wages and construction costs. To explore the influence of both heterogeneous preferences and correlation among the utility of alternatives, we estimate conditional-, random parameters-, and error components logit models that parameterize the influence of costs, energy savings, and household-level socioeconomic attributes on the likelihood of undertaking one of 16 renovation options. We use the model coefficients to derive household-specific marginal Willingness to Pay estimates, and with these assess the extent to which free-ridership may undermine the effectiveness of recently implemented programs that subsidize the costs of retrofits.
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Pupils' perceptions of maths and science at
secondary level may be influenced by their experience at earlier
stages in the education process, for example in primary school.
In order to offer students an excellent all-round education at
an early age, the enthusiasm of teachers is paramount. The pressures
exerted on primary schools to improve league table positions may
result in less enthused teaching and a more blackboard-based style.
Pressure on pupils at this stage may affect their enthusiasm towards
subjects considered difficult at a later stage.
The maths and science curricula are now taught
in a practical rather than theoretical style at primary level
in order to enthuse and encourage pupils. Maths and science weeks
are offered by local education authorities to those teachers keen
to improve skills in those areas. Teachers at primary level are
subject to the same pressures as those in secondary schools with
lack of funding, large class sizes and constant pressure to improve
performance. Additional pressures are exerted with mixed ability
classes where students with a range of abilities are taught at
one time.
Primary teachers have found that their students
lose enthusiasm for subjects upon transferring to secondary level.
This may be due to a change in teaching style from more practical
based learning with greater pupil involvement, to theoretical
teaching. In addition, there is some overlap in the subject material
studied in the final year of primary school and the first year
of secondary school. Those students enthused by a certain subject
at primary level may lose motivation if they encounter a high
level of repetition.
Feedback from secondary schools has indicated
that the pass rate for students taking three separate science
subjects is lower than for those taking combined science at GCSE.
It is generally understood that, when studied separately, science
GCSEs are considered difficult. As a consequence it is possible
that schools may introduce streaming for pre GCSE students in
order to encourage only the most able students to continue to
study three separate subjects. Those achieving good grades in
a combined science GCSE may then be encouraged to go on to study
science at "A" Level, but there is a risk that the gap
in skills may result in lower examination performance and decreased
motivation on the part of the student.
Pressure to maintain or increase league table
status may result in fewer students being encouraged to study
science, which is considered a more difficult subject and may
also have a lower pass rate than other subjects.
Science is an expensive subject to teach. Lack
of funding results in lack of decent equipment and ill-equipped
laboratories, which has a direct impact on the teaching and learning
process. It has also been suggested that the amount of time spent
teaching science is far less than for other subjects.
Range of subjects
It was felt by more than one tutor that the
number and range of new subjects introduced to the school curriculum
has introduced greater competition between subjects. Traditional
science subjects have suffered as fewer pupils have opted for
them, the majority choosing the more "exciting" subjects
such as psychology and IT.
In the short term, issues are dominated by curriculum
2000 and the new "A" levels. The situation for mathematics
is crucial for many other subjects where maths is a required pre-requisite.
It would appear that many pupils have been dissuaded from progressing
to the A2 stage by problems experienced in the AS stage.
For many students, maths is considered a "difficult"
"A" level, particularly when compared with other "A"
level subjects. The content of AS maths is as voluminous as "A"
level Maths and therefore attracts fewer students.
The approach to the problem differs for the
two groups of students involved. The most able and interested
pupils will probably need different treatment from the competent
"average" student.
Science is perceived to be hard and irrelevant
to daily life, and scientists are seen as poorly paid in comparison
to investment bankers.
February 2002
1 London Mathematical Society, 1995, Report: Tackling
the Mathematics Problem.
2 Engineering Council, 2000, Report: Measuring the
Mathematics Problem.


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SOUTH ABINGTON TWP. — Magisterial District Judge Paul Keeler is hopeful a new diversionary program will help veterans who are facing challenges transition back into the community.
Lackawanna County President Judge Michael J. Barrasse selected District Court 45-3-01, consisting of Dalton, Clarks Summit, Clarks Green, La Plume, North Abington Township, West Abington Township, South Abington Township, Glenburn, Waverly, Newton Township and Ransom Township, to pilot the Magisterial Veterans Diversion Program for a year.
The first veterans court in the state of Pennsylvania was established in Lackawanna County in November 2009 by then President Judge Thomas J. Munley and Judge Barrasse with the other treatment courts.
"That (court) is primarily for defendants who commit felonies," Keeler said. "Since I've been elected, I started working closely with Clarks Summit Councilmen Pat Williams and Herman Johnson, who also serve as mentors in the Lackawanna County Veterans Treatment Court, Judge Barrasse and District Judge John J. Mercuri to implement a plan to provide a similar diversionary program for veterans who commit third degree misdemeanors and summary offenses and come in front of the magisterial district judges."
Barrasse and Keeler will lead a public discussion on the new program at 7 p.m. Thursday, May 26 at Abington Memorial VFW Post 7069, 409 Winola Road, Clarks Summit.
"We envision a three- to six-month diversionary program, depending on the severity of the crime and the details of the individual," Keeler said. "We're going to try to promote the program with the defense bar and let the police become aware of it because they are the first line.
"If all goes well with the pilot program, we hope this program will be available throughout all the district courts in the county."
Keeler believes the culture of the Abingtons makes it a logical location to launch the pilot initiative.
"Part of the process, in addition to getting counseling and treatment through the Department of Veterans Affairs office, will be pairing the defendants with a local veteran as a mentor to help them deal with day-to-day life issues," Keeler said. "We have a very strong VFW in the Clarks Summit area and I think that's why our district court is ideally situated to implement this program."
If an individual is selected as an ideal candidate for the program, they will be referred to Lackawanna County Veterans Justice Outreach Specialist Kim Sapolis-Lacey. The VA will fund the treatment and benefits.
"We'll also be looking to see what sort of community service or other way they can pay their debt to society for the crime they committed," Keeler said. "It's a diversionary program meaning if they comply they will be pleading guilty to the summary offenses. If they successfully complete the program, the guilty plea will be withdrawn and the charges will be dismissed."
According to Williams, each mentor is assigned a veteran when needs arise.
"The veterans are responsible for calling their mentor at least three times a week to check in," he said. "Three or four times, I've worked with a veteran struggling with different issues and we've helped them the best we can."
Johnson believes the mutual respect between the veteran defendants and their mentors has played a big role in the program's success at the county level.
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Your dog is your family and only deserves the best. But can you get "the best" dog food cheaply?
The very best can get insanely expensive. So what is a happy medium? And, what dog food should you choose when the economy gets so tight that you are wondering how you can afford one more meal for yourself?
The good news is that you can pick one of these quality dog foods and continue to give your pet the nutrition it needs … for as little as $1 per pound of food.
In a lot of cases, these foods offer more nutritional value than some of the high-end foods — like Pedigree (which is mostly grain with a little bit of flavor added.)
Variation is The Key To Life
Just because you find a good dog food does not mean that your dog would not benefit from a little variety now and then. Now you don't want to do dramatic substitutions as that can lead to bowel upsets.
However, mixing in some different foods, or adding some human food — like well-cooked sweet potatoes to their dish, can help offer your dog a well-rounded diet with some variety that brightens your pet's day.
The Lie About Cheap Dog Food
Here's the dirty secret that dog food companies don't want you to know: Their food is not suitable for dogs.
Literally. There are dog foods on the market right now that use condemned meats, and have barely enough nutrition to keep your dog alive and healthy.
Sure, they may fill the belly, and they might have great ads on TV, but some of the top, most expensive brands, actually have more corn in them than they do meat and vitamins — and that corn was often rejected for human consumption.
Here's your insider tip: The most expensive, most advertised dog food is not always the best choice.
The trick is to read the ingredients and find a dog food that has meat as its first ingredient. Real, whole food is what makes a healthy dog.
Too many dog foods use everything but that.
Tips For Finding Good-Quality, Inexpensive Dog Food
It's a well-known fact that the more you buy, the more you are likely to save on the per-pound price. Generally speaking, you are going to get more per dollar if you spend
However, sometimes you can find sales where smaller packages are sold for less than big ones. Closeouts and short-run flavors are a great way to watch for this. Read the ingredients and do the math and see which one gives you the best value pound per pound.
In addition, if you buy your dog food from Amazon, you can use their monthly subscription service on some dog foods to save even more money.
Below I review some of the best economical dog foods on the market.
Top Pick: Diamond Naturals Dog Food
This is one that I've had a lot of personal experience with. To begin with, it uses some sort of meal: lamb, beef or chicken. So your dog gets a goodly amount of real, animal-based protein.
In addition, as you read the ingredients, you'll notice a lot of other goodly stuff — like flaxseed. High in Omega-3's and fiber, this is an ingredient you'd typically only find in top-level dog foods.
Traditionally Diamond has only been carried at the major farm feed stores, so it has been harder to get. However, it is now carried by Amazon.com, making it easily available to everyone. (There are several options that qualify for PRIME for free shipping!)
I've used it for a lot of years on all sizes of dogs. They love it and they stay in tip-top shape. If you are savvy enough, you can even find it for less than $1 a pound.
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# 2 Pick: Science Diet
Science Diet is one of the best dog foods on the market. In fact, it is one of the most-recommended dog foods by veterinarians.
Why? Well, to begin with, look at the first ingredient. Unless you are looking at the vegetarian version, you will see "chicken" or "beef". By comparison, Diamond uses "Beef Meal" and "Chicken Meal". By sticking to whole meets, Science Diet ensures that your dog gets the maximum nutrition possible from each bite.
Whereas Diamond Dog Food can be found for just shy of $1 a pound, you are going to barely cross that $1 mark in order to get Science Diet.
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#3 Pick : Premium Edge For Sensitive Skin
Most cheap dog foods are doing their best to just offer the bare minimum in the way of nutrition. (In fact, a lot of expensive dog foods are doing the same thing. )
The beautiful thing about Premium Edge is that they actually include high-end meats such as salmon and fish meal as their two main ingredients. These rich in-omega-3 oil foods are a great way to give your dog a full range of nutrition while simultaneously feeding its coat.
And then, for filler, they use rich foods like Potatoes, Kelp, Blueberries, and Flaxseed. It's pretty impressive. If that's not enough this food is fortified with vitamins such as Glucasomine for the dog's joints and Taurine for their heart health.
I realize, you will pay a little bit more for this brand than you will for the other 2 that we have reviewed so far, but it is so much better, that, if your budget will allow, I have to highly recommend this option.
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Bonus Pick: Canidae Dog Food
Canidae is actually produced in the Diamond Dog food factories. So it isn't much surprise that the ingredient lists are a very similar. The great thing about Canidae is that their dog food is very simply meat and grain. No additives.
So if you have a dog with a sensitive stomach, this would be a great one to consider. However, it costs a little more, and I, frankly, would be more inclined to try Hill's Science Diet for dogs with sensitive stomachs, since it is quite often recommended by veterinarians for exactly that reason.
But, if one of the other brands suddenly raises their prices, this is another high-quality dog food brand to consider.
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Any of these brands would be ideal. The trick is to keep trying different brands until you figure out which one is the best cheap dog food for your family.
This Video Goes Over More Tips On Choosing The Right Dog Food:
More Dog Food Reviews From Nina:
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- A Reviews of The 5 Very Best Canned Dog Foods – What Sets Them Apart?
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FROM PULLMAN -- Washington State is back on the court already, taking on UCLA in a 6:30 p.m. game at Beasley Coliseum tonight. We have links and such to get you started. Read on.
First, here's our advance in today's paper examining how WSU's roster will change next year, and whether the Cougars think it will yield better results. On the blog, we recapped Ken Bone's meeting with the press. ... Howie Stalwick has this preview of the game. ... Interesting commentary on Cougar fans. ... UCLA is riding a couple of streaks into its road games at WSU and Washington.
Around the Pac-12. ... There are two other Pac-12 basketball games today. California looks to further improve its NCAA standing as it hosts rival Stanford (8 p.m., ESPN2). ... The other half features USC and Washington (8:30 p.m., FSN). The Huskies are benefiting from a refocused Scott Suggs. ... Colorado and Oregon are staying in the now. ... Utah's fans turned back out this season in a big way. ... Arizona has benefited from Mark Lyons' play this season. ... Washington began spring football practices yesterday. ... USC has a quarterback competition to look at this spring.
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December 5th, 2003, 08:52 AM #1
I'm seeing normal click through's but no sales anyone else experiencing this too? I'm not sure they visit this board.....
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I don't think they have ever visited here but I could be wrong.
We got a few sales this month but it has been very slow. We have sales for 12/1 and a few for 12/2 but nothing else so far so they are about 2 days or so behind.
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Office Depot report sales 2-3 days behind always. It is not unusual.
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Hey, just back from a trip to England and Spain and now I need to do some shopping to fill some cravings. In particular, I need:
1. Lots of British foodstuffs, in particular, Branston pickle. We flew BA and their thin well-composed sandwiches really inspired me, believe it or not.
2. A good Spanish market. We brought home plenty of stuff but that will run out, and of course some things are a no-no with customs. I'd love to find a really great well-aged Manchego, for example.
3. A source for good anchovies. Maybe Diana's has, or one of the better Portuguese fishmongers? We ate anchovies almost every day in Spain, and I am craving the simple plate of anchovies doused in red wine vinegar and sliced red onion...with some nice bread, man so good. Keep in mind these should be salted/preserved, but big and good enough to stand on their own, ie. the jar of little Italian fishies I have from Costco won't cut it.


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Los Angeles Clippers vs. Philadelphia 76ers - 1/3/15 NBA Pick, Odds, and Prediction
Philadelphia 76ers (4-27) at Los Angeles Clippers (22-11)
NBA Basketball: Saturday, January 3, 2015 at 10:30 pm (STAPLES Center)
The Line: Los Angeles Clippers -19.5 -- Over/Under: 206 See the Latest Odds
The Los Angeles Clippers look to run up a score on the Philadelphia 76ers tonight.
The Philadelphia 76ers continued their tough season with a fourth straight loss, this time by 112-96 at the hands of the Suns on Friday. In a game that was closer than the final score suggests, Tony Wroten poured in 28 points, Michael Carter-Williams added 17 and Henry Sims added 16 in a close game before the Suns pulled away in a dominant 55-37 second half effort. Philadelphia has now lost their last four games by an average of 23.5 points to drop to 4-27 on the season.
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Meanwhile, the Los Angeles Clippers have won three of their last four games and are looking to build on the 99-78 thrashing they delivered to the Knicks on Wednesday. JJ Redick got things going early on and finished with a team-high 20 points while Blake Griffin flirted with a triple double, scoring 13 points, seven rebounds and 11 assists as the Clippers got the early lead against the Knicks and never looked like wavering. It didn't factor into the game, but Chris Paul had a forgettable shooting night, making just 2 of his 11 attempts and finishing with just five points but no one cares as the Clippers improved to 22-11 on the season and 14-4 at home.
In ATS trends, the 76ers are 1-4 ATS in their last four games against a team with a winning record and 0-4 ATS in their last four games overall, while the Clippers are 7-15 ATS in their last 22 home games and 2-7 ATS in their last nine games overall.
Head to head, the 76ers are 0-5 ATS in the last five meetings but the Road team is 11-5 ATS in the last 16 overall.
The bookies just can't seem to give the 76ers enough points but you can't really blame them either. This is definitely a game I'd stay away from, but if you feel like taking a chance here, I actually think the slightly better bet is with the Clippers at home in this one.


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By Helen Briggs BBC News They migrate thousands of kilometres across the sea without getting lost. The Arctic tern, for instance, spends summer in the UK, then flies to the Antarctic for the winter. Yet, scientists are still unsure exactly how birds perform such extreme feats of migration, arriving in the right place every year. According to new research, smell plays a key role when birds are navigating long distances over the ocean. Researchers from the universities of Oxford, Barcelona and Pisa temporarily removed seabirds' sense of smell before tracking their movements. They found the birds could navigate normally over land, but appeared to lose their bearings over the sea. This suggests that they use a map of smells to find their way when there are no visual cues. Previous experiments had suggested that removing birds' sense of smell impairs homing ability. However, some had questioned whether sensory deprivation might impair some other function, such as the ability to search for food. ''Our new study eliminates these objections, meaning it will be very difficult in future to argue that olfaction is not involved in long-distance oceanic navigation in birds,'' said study researcher Oliver Padget of Oxford University's Department of Zoology. The researchers studied 30 Scopoli's shearwaters living off the coast of Menorca. The birds nest in the Mediterranean, but spend the non-breeding season in the Atlantic, including areas off the west coast of Africa and the east coast of Brazil. Some of the birds were made to temporarily lose their sense of smell through nasal irrigation with zinc sulphate; another group carried small magnets; and a third group acted as a control. © 2017 BBC.
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By STEPH YIN European eels are born and die in the North Atlantic Ocean, but spend most of their lives in rivers or estuaries across Europe and North Africa. In between, they traverse thousands of miles of ocean, where it's often unclear which way is up or down. Scientists have therefore long suspected that these critically endangered fish use magnetism to help guide them. A study published Friday in Science Advances shows, for the first time, that European eels might link magnetic cues with the tides to navigate. Studying juveniles during the crucial stage when they move toward land from open ocean, the authors found that eels faced different directions based on whether the tide was flowing in (flood tide) or out (ebb tide). Changing orientation might help eels take advantage of tides to travel from the ocean to the coast, and into fresh water, more efficiently, said Alessandro Cresci, a graduate student at the University of Miami and lead author of the study. Previous studies have shown that eels can detect magnetic fields, but how they use this sixth sense "has remained a matter of speculation" until now, said Michael J. Miller, an eel biologist at Nihon University in Japan who was not involved in the study. When transitioning from sea to coast, European eels are in a stage of their lives where they are about the size of a finger and transparent along their bodies, thus the name "glass eels." Mr. Cresci's group studied glass eels from the coast of Norway, observing the animals in the field by putting 54 slippery, see-through eels, one by one, in a drifting chamber equipped with cameras and compasses. When the tide ebbed, these animals generally faced south, but when it flowed in, they showed no consistent orientation. The researchers then studied 49 of the same eels in laboratory tanks. They subjected some of the eels to reoriented magnetic fields, rotating magnetic north to the east, south or west. © 2017 The New York Times Company
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Link ID: 23728 - Posted: 06.12.2017
Laura Beil Scientists have shown why fruit flies don't get lost. Their brains contain cells that act like a compass, marking the direction of flight. It may seem like a small matter, but all animals — even Siri-dependent humans — have some kind of internal navigation system. It's so vital to survival that it is probably linked to many brain functions, including thought, memory and mood. "Everyone can recall a moment of panic when they took a wrong turn and lost their sense of direction," says Sung Soo Kim of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Janelia Research Campus in Ashburn, Va. "This sense is central to our lives." But it's a complex system that is still not well understood. Human nerve cells involved in the process are spread throughout the brain. In fruit flies, the circuitry is much more straightforward. Two years ago, Janelia researchers reported that the flies appear to have a group of about 50 cells connected in a sort of ring in the center of their brains that serve as an internal compass. But the scientists could only theorize how the system worked. In a series of experiments published online May 4 in Science, Kim and his Janelia colleagues describe how nerve cell activity in the circle changes when the insects fly. The scientists tethered Drosophila melanogaster flies to tiny metal rods that kept them from wriggling under a microscope. Each fly was then surrounded with virtual reality cues — like a passing landscape — that made it think it was moving. As a fly flapped its wings, the scientists recorded which nerve cells, or neurons, were active, and when. The experiments clusters of about four to five neurons would fire on the side of the ring corresponding to the direction of flight: one part of the ring for forward, another next to it for left, and so on. |© Society for Science & the Public 2000 - 2017.
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By Elizabeth Pennisi By standing on the shoulders of giants, humans have built the sophisticated high-tech world we live in today. Tapping into the knowledge of previous generations—and those around us—was long thought to be a "humans-only" trait. But homing pigeons can also build collective knowledge banks, behavioral biologists have discovered, at least when it comes to finding their way back to the roost. Like humans, the birds work together and pass on information that lets them get better and better at solving problems. "It is a really exciting development in this field," says Christine Caldwell, a psychologist at the University of Stirling in the United Kingdom who was not involved with the work. Researchers have admired pigeon intelligence for decades. Previous work has shown the birds are capable of everything from symbolic communication to rudimentary math. They also use a wide range of cues to find their way home, including smell, sight, sound, and magnetism. On its own, a pigeon released multiple times from the same place will even modify its navigation over time for a more optimal route home. The birds also learn specific routes from one another. Because flocks of pigeons tend to take more direct flights home than individuals, scientists have long thought some sort of "collective intelligence" is at work. © 2017 American Association for the Advancement of Science
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Laurel Hamers Earth's magnetic field helps eels go with the flow. The Gulf Stream fast-tracks young European eels from their birthplace in the Sargasso Sea to the European rivers where they grow up. Eels can sense changes in Earth's magnetic field to find those highways in a featureless expanse of ocean — even if it means swimming away from their ultimate destination at first, researchers report in the April 13 Current Biology. European eels (Anguilla anguilla) mate and lay eggs in the salty waters of the Sargasso Sea, a seaweed-rich region in the North Atlantic Ocean. But the fish spend most of their adult lives living in freshwater rivers and estuaries in Europe and North Africa. Exactly how eels make their journey from seawater to freshwater has baffled scientists for more than a century, says Nathan Putman, a biologist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Miami. The critters are hard to track. "They're elusive," says study coauthor Lewis Naisbett-Jones, a biologist now at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. "They migrate at night and at depth. The only reason we know they spawn in the Sargasso Sea is because that's where the smallest larvae have been collected." |© Society for Science & the Public 2000 - 2017.
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David Cyranoski For decades, scientists have wondered how animals can navigate huge distances using the weak signals of Earth's magnetic field. So, interest was piqued in 2015 when two teams released papers in quick succession describing the functions of a protein found in animals that seemed to sense magnetic fields. But the claims have proved controversial, and questions have been piling up. The basic science behind the discovery was reported by Xie Can, a biophysicist at Peking University in Beijing, and his colleagues. In a paper in Nature Materials1, they claimed that a protein in animal cells forms a structure that responds to magnetic fields, and so might help in navigation. In the same year, a group led by Zhang Sheng-jia, then at Tsinghua University in Beijing, had published a paper in Science Bulletin2 reporting that the same protein could offer a powerful means of controlling brain cells. An academic battle has long raged between Xie and Zhang, but mounting evidence has cast doubt on both of their discoveries. Several researchers have challenged Xie's claims that the protein reacts to magnetic fields. And last month, Xie co-authored a paper in Frontiers in Neural Circuits3 disputing Zhang's work on the protein's potential to magnetically control cells. This has all given rise to serious questions about the role of the molecule at the centre of the dispute. In their 2015 paper1, Xie and his colleagues reported that a protein called IscA1 forms a complex with another protein, Cry4, that explains how organisms pick up magnetic cues. The study found that this complex incorporates iron atoms, which gives it magnetic properties, and has a rod-like shape that aligns with an applied magnetic field. © 2017 Macmillan Publishers Limited
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By Catherine Offord In the early 20th century, Danish biologist Johannes Schmidt solved a puzzle that had confounded European fisherman for generations. Freshwater eels—popular for centuries on menus across northern Europe—were abundant in rivers and creeks, but only as adults, never as babies. So where were they coming from? In 1922, after nearly two decades of research, Schmidt published the answer: the Sargasso Sea, the center of a massive, swirling gyre in the North Atlantic Ocean. Now regarded as some of the world's most impressive animal migrators, European eels (Anguilla anguilla) journey westward across the Atlantic to spawning sites in the Sargasso; their eggs hatch into larvae that are carried back across the ocean by the Gulf Stream, arriving two or three years later to repopulate European waterways. For decades, researchers have assumed that adults made the journey in one short and rapid migration, leaving European coastlines in autumn and arriving in the Sargasso Sea, ready to spawn, the following spring. But this assumption rests on surprisingly little evidence, says behavioral ecologist David Righton of the UK Centre for Environment, Fisheries, and Aquaculture Science. "Since Johannes Schmidt identified this spawning area in the Sargasso Sea, people have been wondering about that great journey and trying to figure out how to follow the eels," says Righton, whose work on epic marine migrations includes appropriately titled projects such as CODYSSEY and EELIAD. "But the technology hasn't been available. . . . They just slip away into the darkness, really, in autumn, and no one knows what happens to them." © 1986-2017 The Scientist
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Link ID: 23116 - Posted: 01.18.2017
By Ben Andrew Henry Traveling from the forests and fields of Europe to the grasslands south of the Sahara desert is a monumental trip for anyone, and especially for a diminutive insect. Yet every year, populations of the painted lady (Vanessa cardui) butterfly make that journey over the course of several generations. The logistics of this migratory feat had been speculated for some time, but never fully understood, in part because of the difficulty of tracking the tiny insects across long distances. In a study published October 4 in Biology Letters, researchers reported having measured the isotopic composition of butterfly wings in Europe and south of the Sahara. Since the fraction of heavy hydrogen isotopes in the environment varies geographically, the team used its analysis to identify the origins of butterflies captured, confirming that groups of butterflies in the Sahara did originate in Europe. The butterflies do not linger in Africa long. They most likely make their trip, the authors suggested, to take advantage of the burst of productivity in the tropical savannah that follows the rainy season—and to breed the generation that will start the trip back. Europe's freshwater eels (Anguilla anguilla) live out their days in rivers and streams, but they never spawn there. Massive catches of larval eels in the Sargasso Sea tipped researchers off a century ago that eels must spawn in the swirling mid-Atlantic gyre of free-floating seaweed and then migrate to Europe. Eels leave their homes in the late fall, but other than that, the details of their journey have been a mystery. © 1986-2016 The Scientist
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Link ID: 23029 - Posted: 12.28.2016
By CHRIS BUCKLEY BEIJING — When Flappy McFlapperson and Skybomb Bolt sprang into the sky for their annual migration from wetlands near Beijing, nobody was sure where the two cuckoos were going. They and three other cuckoos had been tagged with sensors to follow them from northern China. But to where? "These birds are not known to be great fliers," said Terry Townshend, a British amateur bird watcher living in the Chinese capital who helped organize the Beijing Cuckoo Project to track the birds. "Migration is incredibly perilous for birds, and many perish on these journeys." The answer to the mystery — unfolding in passages recorded by satellite for more than five months — has been a humbling revelation even to many experts. The birds' journeys have so far covered thousands of miles, across a total of a dozen countries and an ocean. The "common cuckoo," as the species is called, turns out to be capable of exhilarating odysseys. "It's impossible not to feel an emotional response," said Chris Hewson, an ecologist with the British Trust for Ornithology in Thetford, England, who has helped run the tracking project. "There's something special about feeling connected to one small bird flying across the ocean or desert." But to follow a cuckoo, you must first seduce it. The common cuckoo is by reputation a cynical freeloader. Mothers outsource parenting by laying their eggs in the nests of smaller birds, and the birds live on grubs, caterpillars and similar soft morsels. British and Chinese bird groups decided to study two cuckoo subspecies found near Beijing, because their winter getaways were a puzzle. In an online poll for the project, nearly half the respondents guessed they went somewhere in Southeast Asia. © 2016 The New York Times Company
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James Gorman When the leader of a flock goes the wrong way, what will the flock do? With human beings, nobody can be sure. But with homing pigeons, the answer is that they find their way home anyway. Either the lead pigeon recognizes that it has no clue and falls back into the flock, letting birds that know where they are going take over, or the flock collectively decides that the direction that it is taking just doesn't feel right, and it doesn't follow. Several European scientists report these findings in a stirring report in Biology Letters titled, "Misinformed Leaders Lose Influence Over Pigeon Flocks." Isobel Watts, a doctoral student in zoology at Oxford, conducted the study with her advisers, Theresa Burt de Perera and Dora Biro, and with the participation of Mate Nagy, a statistical physicist from Hungary, who is affiliated with several institutions, including Oxford and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Dr. Biro, who studies social behavior in primates as well as pigeons, said that the common questions that ran through her work were "about group living and what types of challenges and opportunities it brings." She and her colleagues at Oxford have pioneered a method of studying flock behavior that uses very-fine-resolution GPS units, which the birds wear in pigeon-size backpacks. The devices record a detailed position for each bird a number of times a second. Researchers in Budapest and Oxford developed software to analyze small movements and responses of every bird in a flock. With this method, the scientists can identify which pigeons are leading the way. They can build a picture of how each bird responds to changes in the flight of other birds. © 2016 The New York Times Company
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Link ID: 22696 - Posted: 09.26.2016
By JOHN P. GLUCK Albuquerque, N.M. — Five years ago, the National Institutes of Health all but ended biomedical and behavioral research on chimpanzees, concluding that, as the closest human relative, they deserved "special consideration and respect." But chimpanzees were far from the only nonhuman primates used in research then, or now. About 70,000 other primates are still living their lives as research subjects in labs across the United States. On Wednesday, the N.I.H. will hold a workshop on "continued responsible research" with these animals. This sounds like a positive development. But as someone who spent decades working almost daily with macaque monkeys in primate research laboratories, I know firsthand that "responsible" research is not enough. What we really need to examine is the very moral ground of animal research itself. Like many researchers, I once believed that intermittent scientific gains justified methods that almost always did harm. As a graduate student in the late 1960s, I came to see that my natural recoil from intentionally harming animals was a hindrance to how I understood scientific progress. I told myself that we were being responsible by providing good nutrition, safe cages, skilled and caring caretakers and veterinarians for the animals — and, crucially, that what we stood to learn outweighed any momentary or prolonged anguish these animals might experience. The potential for a medical breakthrough, the excitement of research and discovering whether my hypotheses were correct — and let's not leave out smoldering ambition — made my transition to a more "rigorous" stance easier than I could have imagined. One of my areas of study focused on the effects of early social deprivation on the intellectual abilities of rhesus monkeys. We kept young, intelligent monkeys separated from their families and others of their kind for many months in soundproof cages that remained lit 24 hours a day, then measured how their potential for complex social and intellectual lives unraveled. All the while, I comforted myself with the idea that these monkeys were my research partners, and that by creating developmental disorders in monkeys born in a lab, we could better understand these disorders in humans. © 2016 The New York Times Company
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Link ID: 22622 - Posted: 09.03.2016
by Chris Samoray Every fall, blackpoll warblers fly from North America to South America in what's the longest migration route of any warbler in the Western Hemisphere. But some of the tiny songbirds take a detour before making their epic transoceanic leap. Over 40 years of data from 22,295 birds show that blackpoll warblers (Setophaga striata) living in western North America head east for a pit stop to put on weight, giving the birds the energy stores they need to cross the Atlantic Ocean, researchers report December 9 in the Auk: Ornithological Advances. For birds that breed farther west in places like Alaska, the eastern stopover means a migration distance that's nearly twice that of their eastern U.S. counterparts, the scientists find. © Society for Science & the Public 2000 - 2015.
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Link ID: 21687 - Posted: 12.10.2015
By Nala Rogers If you travel with a group of friends, you might delegate navigation to the person with the best sense of direction. But among homing pigeons, the leader is whoever flies the fastest—even if that pigeon has to pick up navigation skills on the job, according to a new study. To find out how the skills of individual pigeons influence flock direction, researchers tested four flocks on journeys from three different locations, each about 5 kilometers from their home loft near Oxford, U.K. At each site, the researchers tracked the pigeons during solo flights before releasing them together for several group journeys. The fastest birds surged to the front during group flights and determined when the flock turned, despite the fact that these leaders were often poor navigators during their initial solo expeditions. But on a final set of solo flights—made after the group journeys—these same leaders chose straighter routes than followers, the researchers report today in Current Biology. Apparently, being responsible for group decisions helped pigeons learn the route, say scientists, raising questions about the two-way interplay between skills and leadership. © 2015 American Association for the Advancement of Science
Related chapters from BN8e: Chapter 8: General Principles of Sensory Processing, Touch, and Pain; Chapter 17: Learning and Memory
Related chapters from MM:Chapter 5: The Sensorimotor System; Chapter 13: Memory, Learning, and Development
Link ID: 21661 - Posted: 11.28.2015
Ian Sample Science editor Tiny biological compasses made from clumps of protein may help scores of animals, and potentially even humans, to find their way around, researchers say. Scientists discovered the minuscule magnetic field sensors in fruit flies, but found that the same protein structures appeared in retinal cells in pigeons' eyes. They can also form in butterfly, rat, whale and human cells. The rod-like compasses align themselves with Earth's geomagnetic field lines, leading researchers to propose that when they move, they act on neighbouring cell structures that feed information into the nervous system to create a broader direction-sensing system. Professor Can Xie, who led the work at Peking University, said the compass might serve as a "universal mechanism for animal magnetoreception," referring to the ability of a range of animals from butterflies and lobsters to bats and birds, to navigate with help from Earth's magnetic field. Whether the compasses have any bearing on human navigation is unknown, but the Peking team is investigating the possibility. "Human sense of direction is complicated," said Xie. "However, I believe that magnetic sense plays a key role in explaining why some people have a good sense of direction." The idea that animals could sense Earth's magnetic field was once widely dismissed, but the ability is now well established, at least among some species. The greatest mystery that remains is how the sensing is done. © 2015 Guardian News and Media Limited
Related chapters from BN8e: Chapter 8: General Principles of Sensory Processing, Touch, and Pain
Related chapters from MM:Chapter 5: The Sensorimotor System
Link ID: 21638 - Posted: 11.17.2015
David Cyranoski A Chinese neuroscientist has been sacked after reporting he had used magnetic fields to control neurons and muscle cells in nematode worms (pictured), using a protein that senses magnetism. Tsinghua University in Beijing has sacked a neuroscientist embroiled in a dispute over work on a long-sought protein that can sense magnetic fields. The university has not given a specific reason for its dismissal, however, and the scientist involved, Zhang Sheng-jia, says that he will contest their action. In September, Zhang reported in the journal Science Bulletin1 that he could manipulate neurons in worms by applying a magnetic field — a process that uses a magnetic-sensing protein. But a biophysicist at neighbouring Peking University, Xie Can, who claims to have discovered the protein's magnetic-sensing capacity and to have a paper detailing his research under review, complained that Zhang should not have published his paper before Xie's own work appeared. Xie said that by publishing, Zhang violated an agreement that the pair had reached — although the two scientists tell different versions about the terms of their agreement, and have different explanations of how Zhang came to be working with the protein. © 2015 Nature Publishing Group
Related chapters from BN8e: Chapter 8: General Principles of Sensory Processing, Touch, and Pain
Related chapters from MM:Chapter 5: The Sensorimotor System
Link ID: 21608 - Posted: 11.06.2015
By Christopher Intagliata If you're lost, you need a map and a compass. The map pinpoints where you are, and the compass orients you in the right direction. Migratory birds, on the other hand, can traverse entire hemispheres and end up just a couple miles from where they bred last year, using their senses alone. Their compass is the Sun, the stars and the Earth's magnetic field. But their map is a little more mysterious. One theory goes that they use olfactory cues—how a place smells. Another is that they rely on their sense of magnetism. Researchers in Russia investigated the map issue in a past study by capturing Eurasian reed warblers on the Baltic Sea as they flew northeast towards their breeding grounds near Saint Petersburg. They moved the birds 600 miles east, near Moscow. And the birds just reoriented themselves to the northwest—correctly determining their new position. Now the same scientists have repeated that experiment—only this time, they didn't move the birds at all. They just put them in cages that simulated the magnetic field of Moscow, while still allowing the birds to experience the sun, stars and smells of the Baltic. Once again, the birds re-oriented themselves to the northwest—suggesting that the magnetic field alone—regardless of smells or other cues, is enough to alter the birds' mental map. The study is in the journal Current Biology. [Dmitry Kishkinev et al, Eurasian reed warblers compensate for virtual magnetic displacement] And if you're envious of that sixth sense—keep in mind that since the Earth's magnetic field fluctuates, the researchers say magnetic route-finding is best for crude navigation. Meaning for door-to-door directions—you're still better off with your GPS. © 2015 Scientific American,
Related chapters from BN8e: Chapter 8: General Principles of Sensory Processing, Touch, and Pain
Related chapters from MM:Chapter 5: The Sensorimotor System
Link ID: 21508 - Posted: 10.14.2015
By Virginia Morell How homing pigeons find their way home has long mystified scientists. Experiments have shown they rely on smells to create a mental map of their route and on the sun or Earth's magnetic fields to navigate. But they also use vision, memorizing roads, railway lines, and rivers. To understand just how important pigeons' visual memories are for homing, scientists trained 12 birds to fly to their home lofts while wearing patches covering one eye (as in the photo above). Each bird wore a GPS logging device and made 18 flights with the left or right eye blocked, followed by another 18 trips with the opposite eye covered. Unlike mammals, birds lack a key neural structure—the corpus callosum—that allows both hemispheres of the brain to access what an animal sees. The experiments revealed that this missing neural structure affects the pigeons' homing abilities, the scientists report in today's the Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Pigeons that learned their way home with a blocked left eye couldn't repeat the same journey when they wore a patch over their right eye, and vice versa. Instead, they flew slightly off course, following more of a curve than a straight line. The new work proves that vision, too, plays a key role in how pigeons find their way home. © 2015 American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Related chapters from BN8e: Chapter 10: Vision: From Eye to Brain
Related chapters from MM:Chapter 7: Vision: From Eye to Brain
Link ID: 21481 - Posted: 10.07.2015
David Cyranoski A dispute has broken out at two of China's most prestigious universities over a potentially groundbreaking discovery: the identification of a protein that may allow organisms to sense magnetic fields. On 14 September, Zhang Sheng-jia, a neuroscientist at Tsinghua University in Beijing, and his colleagues published a paper1 in Science Bulletin claiming to use magnetic fields to remotely control neurons and muscle cells in worms, by employing a particular magnetism-sensing protein. But Xie Can, a biophysicist at neighbouring Peking University, says that Zhang's publication draws on a discovery made in his laboratory, currently under review for publication, and violates a collaboration agreement the two had reached. Administrators at Tsinghua and Peking universities, siding with Xie, have jointly requested that the journal retract Zhang's paper, and Tsinghua has launched an investigation into Zhang's actions. The dispute revolves around an answer to the mystery of how organisms as diverse as worms, butterflies, sea turtles and wolves are capable of sensing Earth's magnetic field to help them navigate. Researchers have postulated that structures in biological cells must be responsible, and dubbed these structures magnetoreceptors. But they have never been found. In research starting in 2009, Xie says that he used a painstaking whole-genome screen to identify a protein containing iron and sulfur that seems, according to his experiments, to have the properties of a magnetoreceptor. He called it MagR, to note its purported properties, and has since been examining its function and structure to determine how it senses magnetic fields. © 2015 Nature Publishing Group,
Related chapters from BN8e: Chapter 8: General Principles of Sensory Processing, Touch, and Pain
Related chapters from MM:Chapter 5: The Sensorimotor System
Link ID: 21431 - Posted: 09.22.2015
By Annick Laurent Can you tell a pygmy blue whale from an Antarctic blue whale? If not, you aren't alone. Marine biologists have had trouble distinguishing these enormous mammals with mottled skin patterns ever since they began studying them—and that has complicated efforts to figure out where they breed and how to best protect them. Now, researchers have caught a break thanks to a pygmy whale named Isabela. Researchers first photographed the whale and collected her DNA in 1998 in the waters off the Galapagos Islands. Then, in 2006, another team photographed and collected samples from a similar looking whale off Chile (both photos above). Now, in a study published online before print in Marine Mammal Science, scientists compared those samples and photographs, and discovered that they both belonged to the same whale. That means Isabela (named after the lead author's daughter to represent hope for future preservation efforts) migrated a minimum of 5200 km, the longest recorded latitudinal migration made by any Southern Hemisphere blue whale on record. The findings suggest Chile's and the Galapagos' blue whale aggregations are connected, meaning those feeding in the Gulf of Corcovado off Chile may be breeding in the Tropical Eastern Pacific. Knowing where this species migrates—including its feeding and breeding grounds—can help conservationists and governments better establish marine protected areas, the team says. © 2015 American Association for the Advancement of Science
Related chapters from BN8e: Chapter 8: General Principles of Sensory Processing, Touch, and Pain
Related chapters from MM:Chapter 5: The Sensorimotor System
Link ID: 21213 - Posted: 07.25.2015
By JAMES GORMAN Call it the case of the homing lizards. It's a small mystery. No one of any species is murdered. But the central question is one that has prompted plenty of scientific research: How do animals find their way home? The lizards in this case are anoles — abundant, mostly small reptiles that thrive in the Caribbean. The species is Anolis gundlachi. The lead detective is Manuel Leal, a biologist at the University of Missouri. He has been studying the behavior of anoles for more than 20 years. For about three years, Dr. Leal has been trying to understand how the anole finds its way back to its own territory after being carried into the rain forest. And as he told an audience in June at the annual meeting of the Animal Behavior Society in Anchorage, the case is far from closed. First, a bit of background. Anoles are particularly abundant in the dense vegetation of the rain forests in Puerto Rico, where Dr. Leal studies them. Each species is tied to a very specific environment. For instance, many live on tree trunks, but only a particular part of the trunk. Trunk-ground anoles live only in the space from the ground up to six feet or so. Trunk-crown anoles live above them, up to the crown of the tree. Twig anoles live way up high. Several years ago, Dr. Leal was studying competition between two species. If he removed all of the trunk-ground anoles, he wondered, would the trunk-crown lizards extend their territory farther down the tree? He ran into a problem, however. He would take the trunk-ground lizards far from their home territory to make room for their upstairs neighbors, and then release them. But in a reptilian version of the children's song, "The Cat Came Back," the lizards wouldn't stay away. "Lizards kept showing up in the territory that had just been scoured for lizards," he said. Dr. Leal wondered whether new anoles were appearing in empty territory or the old ones were returning. But how could a lizard that had never left home find its way back through 25 yards or so of dense rain forest? © 2015 The New York Times Company
Related chapters from BN8e: Chapter 8: General Principles of Sensory Processing, Touch, and Pain
Related chapters from MM:Chapter 5: The Sensorimotor System
Link ID: 21141 - Posted: 07.07.2015


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