"For the first time, animals had the ability to understand the world," he says. "They could use their developing senses to piece together different information and use that to accurately locate and ...

In January of 2024, the SciFri Book Club read “An Immense World” by Ed Yong. Luckily, there is also a young readers edition, so you can explore these incredible sensory worlds as well! In this book, ...

While humans use their basic senses to survive, nature has taken these tools to the extreme. This look into evolutionary biology reveals how animals transformed everyday perception into jaw-dropping ...

In " Making Sense of it all: the importance of taking into account the sensory abilities of animals in their housing and management," Nielsen focuses particularly on animals who humans “manage” (which ...

Flanagan, Jean, Glassman, Sarah, Rogers, Melissa, and Duty, Heidi. 2019. How Can Animals Use Their Senses to Communicate? In Smithsonian Science for the Classroom.

Researchers find active and passive touch activate different regions of the brain in mice, which may help these creatures better navigate their environments Though the sense of touch underlies how we ...

Local families took advantage of summer-like conditions to come out April 3 to Lake Metroparks’ Penitentiary Glen Reservation, where they learned how animals parent their young, practiced using their ...

Source: Dale mcLelland / Used with Permission In addition to physical activity and enrichment, dogs and other animals need sensory enrichment that will allow them to use taste, touch, smell, sound, ...

Barn owls pull off something that seems almost impossible: striking prey with lethal accuracy in pitch-black darkness, guided by nothing but sound. The secret lies in a strange quirk of their anatomy ...

When we think about birds, we often picture their colourful plumage: the iridescence of a peacock’s tail or the electric blue flash of a kingfisher. Or we might consider how they use voices, from the ...