BIO 3176 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Ascension Island, Correlation Does Not Imply Causation, Finger Eleven
16 Oct 2017
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Eg the red spot on the seagull bill. No red spot in environment, red spot is relevant. Moths can hear the bats but they don"t need to listen to other stuff. Will parasitizes crickets, lay eggs inside, the larvae eat the cricket from the inside. Flies need to listen to the cricket song. The female threshold for listening for the cricket song is very low. Highly sensitive to the cricket song because it is relevant. Don"t need to listen to noises of other frequencies. Starnosed mole, eastern mole, african hedgehog, masked shrew. Each dot is an eimer"s organ, each one is very innervated. Food is moved from the other fingers to this finger. Brain has the most area dedicated to signalling from finger 11. Ascribing importance to certain areas and not other. Human limitation or other animal limitation through their sensory. Need to understand the other animals sensory bias to learn how they see and interact with the world.
