Ep. 73 - Seeing red (and yellow, and blue) with Dr. Nate Morehouse!
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English - November 23, 2014 18:00 - 41 minutes - 76.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsNatural Sciences Science evolution interview science sciencecommunication academia biology fun Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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This week we're joined by Dr. Nate Morehouse, an Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh who studies colour and how its used among insects and spiders. Nate explained some of his lab's work trying to understand how butterflies tell who are potential mates and who are wasted effort, as well as how jumping spiders taste the rainbow.
If you enjoyed this episode, Nate and his lab could use your help with their crowd-funding campaign to finance an expedition to the southwestern US in search of colourful jumping spiders - https://experiment.com/projects/why-are-some-jumping-spiders-so-colorful