Tag Archive | birdsong
Shaking a Tail Feather for the Good of the Brood
A UChicago biologist asks why some birds continue to make elaborate displays long after attracting a mate, and finds that it may be best for their offspring.
LabBook June 22, 2012
Welcome to LabBook, our weekly roundup of University of Chicago Medicine & Biological Sciences research news from around campus and the world wide web. Each Friday, LabBook will recap the week on the blog, link to news stories about our faculty and studies, and briefly summarize a handful of recent publications by our researchers. THIS […]
Using Fear to Flirt: The “Scary Movie Effect”
The Friday the 13th and Nightmare on Elm Street movies aren’t typically thought of as mating strategies. But putting on a scary movie is a trick as old as drive-in theaters for encouraging one’s date to jump in fright and snuggle in just a little bit closer. Birds, so far as we know, aren’t into […]
Bird Sleep & Human Memory (Video)
If we’re lucky, we spend about one-third of our lives sleeping, a fact that appears on its face to be a colossal waste of time. Wouldn’t us humans be able to get so much more done if we weren’t required to shut down for 8 hours a night? But the fact that the need for […]
