Every Friday at Nothing in Biology Makes Sense! our contributors pass around links to new scientific results, or science-y news, or videos of adorable wildlife, that they’re most likely to bring up while waiting in line for a latte.
From Noah:
A clever green heron uses bread as a tool to catch fish (video)
“Such lovely birds. But the most amazing thing is that they use tools. Some of them fish with bait, putting a piece of food or an object in the water and then snatching the fish that are attracted to it.”
From Sarah:
Keeping an eye on the storm
And a beautiful distraction to think about other watery things
From CJ:
Awesome pictures of moths that are taking the interwebs by storm!:
“The photo of the Venezuelan Poodle Moth–someone likened it to a Pokemon character–had been in mothballs since 2009 until someone plucked it out of Anker’s Flickr account and posted the funny-looking insect online within the past week or so. Not surprisingly, it subsequently took off in cyberspace.“