by BioEdge | Mar 10, 2016 | Site Content
Hyenas Spotted hyena: so analysed and yet so enigmatic Link to the image that inspired this bio-insight: https://cdn.superstock.com/4441/Download/4441-20026972.jpg. The niche of any species cannot be fully understood except within a framework of cause and effect....
by BioEdge | Mar 10, 2016 | Site Content
Spotted hyenas The undignified aristocracy of the spotted hyena Although biologists have avoided these terms, the spotted hyena qualifies as sexist and classist in its behaviour: sexist because one gender (female) systematically oppresses the other (male), and...
by BioEdge | Mar 10, 2016 | Site Content
Crocuta crocuta & Homo sapiens photo © Kevin Richardson Spotted hyena as shadow-self Crocuta crocuta & Homo sapiens photo © Kevin Richardson The human species resembles the spotted hyena in having a society combining sexism and classism. Indeed, the spotted...
by BioEdge | Mar 10, 2016 | Site Content
Plotosus lineatus photo © Hectonichus Aposematic parallels between fish and butterfly Plotosus lineatus photo © Hectonichus Both the striped eel catfish and the zebra longwing butterfly rest gregariously in dim light and are so poisonous that they are avoided by...
by BioEdge | Mar 10, 2016 | Site Content
Loxia curvirostra photo Don’t cross out racial discrimination in finches Links to the images that inspired this bio-insight: http://img2.juzaphoto.com/001/shared_files/uploads/160067.jpg http://yves.thonnerieux.oiseaux.net/images/bec-croise.des.sapins.yvth.1g.jpg...
by BioEdge | Mar 10, 2016 | Site Content
Bitis arietans photo © Johannes van Rooyen A large adder full of olfactory surprises Bitis arietans photo © 4028mdk09 The puffadder has been found to be odourless – even to the extremely sensitive noses of carnivores such as the domestic dog – when lying immobile....
