Stu Bearhop
@stubearhop.bsky.social
Academic at the University of Exeter. Animal ecologist 📊
Researching: animal migration 🦅, foraging behaviour🦆
Will likely post about: research🔬, teaching🎓, wildlife🦋, birds🐦⬛, ornithology 🪶, landscapes🏔️, coast🏝️, kayaking🚣, cycling🚲
Researching: animal migration 🦅, foraging behaviour🦆
Will likely post about: research🔬, teaching🎓, wildlife🦋, birds🐦⬛, ornithology 🪶, landscapes🏔️, coast🏝️, kayaking🚣, cycling🚲
Reposted by Stu Bearhop
Both posts are part of our @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded project 'Developmental control of neural cell number and type’, which builds on our work on mushroom body expansion in #Heliconius butterflies (e.g. see www.nature.com/articles/s41...)
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Rapid expansion and visual specialisation of learning and memory centres in the brains of Heliconiini butterflies - Nature Communications
Changes in the abundance and diversity of neural cell types provide the substrate for behavioral evolution. This study provides evidence of extensive, mosaic expansion of an integration brain center, ...
www.nature.com
June 4, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Both posts are part of our @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded project 'Developmental control of neural cell number and type’, which builds on our work on mushroom body expansion in #Heliconius butterflies (e.g. see www.nature.com/articles/s41...)
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Got to love autocorrect… IOS knows best..
March 30, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Got to love autocorrect… IOS knows best..
Actually did a bit of dredging and while snakes do feature in many of the diet studies, they do not seem important. Not sure where I got the gen on that from… apologies.::
January 24, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Actually did a bit of dredging and while snakes do feature in many of the diet studies, they do not seem important. Not sure where I got the gen on that from… apologies.::
Ok maybe specialist was a bit strong, and I know they scavenge but snakes are a big feature of their diets…
January 23, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Ok maybe specialist was a bit strong, and I know they scavenge but snakes are a big feature of their diets…