Thursday, August 12, 2010

sense and predation

While deer evade us through their sense of smell, another set of life, mosquitoes find us through the same sense.

Smell is not the only sense that aids animals. What does heat sensing fall under? 'moment of Impact' video on PBS about snakes thermal mapping and woodpeckers with their flexible tongues that wrap around their skulls to handle the pressure while they tap at the wood made me wonder how todays generation can learn so much more.

In Remembering smell, in the 'smell, memory' chapter, author Bonnie says that, Memories are remade with each act of rememberance and its evolutionary purpose was to enable learning; thus it must be highly fexible and subjective.

Experimenting even when the lab shuts down. olfactory cuisine. Achatz survived tongue cancer.

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