♥️👑🐣🕊🥸🪶🤨🧬🥚Curious about the origin of the term “cuck”? Listen to learn about the bird and the bees who make a living through trickery. The MASTER bait-and-switchers, if you will. And, even more titillating, learn HOW they evolved to do it!

Link to article: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2121752119

Authors: Claire N. Spottiswoode, Wenfei Tong, Gabriel A. Jamie, Katherine F. Stryjewski, Jeffrey M. DaCosta, Evan R. Kuras, Ailsa Green, Silky Hamama, Ian G. Taylor, Collins Moya, and Michael D. Sorenson

Music by MondayHopes via Pixabay

If you’re new here, HI! 🤗We’re SciPod, a podcast that takes the headache out of peer reviewed scientific literature! Take a stroll with us from the fun fact corner, to the jargon corner, to the break down of a recently published scientific article. Prepare for tangents, jokes, rabbit holes, laughs, and friends just havin’ a good time talking about science stuff! Oh and “we” are Madison and Jared, your biology nerds, your science communicators, your buds, your cohosts, your humble servants…sooo…. thanks for listening, folks! 🤗

Are YOU smarter than a fish? (Jared isn't).

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Cichlids and stingrays can add and subtract 'one' in the number space from one to five, Scientific Reports (2022). DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-07552-2. www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-07552-2

Link to (open access!) article: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abl3644

DOI: 10.7554/eLife.59191

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Further Reading:

https://www.bonobo.org/programs/kokolopori-bonobo-reserve 

https://news.mongabay.com/2009/05/new-rainforest-reserve-in-congo-benefits-bonobos-and-locals/ 

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/05/030521092615.htm 

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/12/getting-to-know-hippie-apes-through-martin-surbeck/ 

Let us know what works for your schedule.

Link to article (paywalled, unfortunately): https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11692-022-09561-5

Moretta-Urdiales MM, Ernst R, Pontón-Cevallos J, Bermúdez JR, Jäger H (2020) Eat and be eaten: trophic interactions of the introduced frog Scinax quinquefasciatus in anthropogenic environments in Galápagos. NeoBiota 61: 17-31. https://doi.org/10.3897/neobiota.61.53256

Source: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.10.21.465334v1.full.pdf

A bit more on Entomophthora muscae

Link to article: https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/2041-210X.13766

OneZoom: https://www.onezoom.org/

Link to article: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0019103521004206

IAU page on planets and our solar system: https://www.iau.org/public/themes/pluto/