Weird Animal Brain: Dung Beetle

June 18, 2018June 14, 2018 Kayleen Schreiber Fact, Neuron, Neuroscience, Perception, Science, Vision

The dung beetle has more interesting characteristics than you might think! If you’d like to learn about more animals with amazing vision, check out this article.

What do you think? Does this change your impression of the lowly dung beetle?

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References

Honkanen, A., Immonen, E., Salmela, I., Heimonen, K., & Weckström, M. (2017, April 05). Retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5312026/

Sekar, S. (2015, February 19). Earth – Which animal has the most sensitive eyes? Retrieved from http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150219-the-worlds-most-sensitive-eyes

Author

Kayleen Schreiber

Kayleen is obsessed with the brain. After majoring in neuroscience at Vanderbilt University, she went straight to a PhD program in neuroscience at the University of Iowa. She currently studies how our brains process speech. She measures electrical changes produced by the brain to understand how the gender of a person talking influences how we hear their speech. Outside the lab, she works to get others excited about science and occasionally plays the bassoon.

Kayleen Schreiber

Kayleen is obsessed with the brain. After majoring in neuroscience at Vanderbilt University, she went straight to a PhD program in neuroscience at the University of Iowa. She currently studies how our brains process speech. She measures electrical changes produced by the brain to understand how the gender of a person talking influences how we hear their speech. Outside the lab, she works to get others excited about science and occasionally plays the bassoon.