Familiar Indian Birds

Sounds Familiar?

Work by Agus and colleagues in this issue of Neuron defines a human mechanism for the rapid learning of novel noises. The noises do not have a verbal label, and are stored accurately for weeks.

Anti-predator Responses of Neotropical Resident and Migrant Birds to Familiar and Unfamiliar Owl Vocalizations on the Yucatan Peninsula

– To reduce predation risk, animals must employ effective predator-detection strategies. Many species rely on prior experience, or learning, to detect predation risk, but this strategy is ineffective when exposed to an unfamiliar potential predator. Many species, however, exhibit an innate response to potential predator species but to our knowledge, no studies have examined the response of bird...

Getting Familiar With Biosimilars

Biotechnology has revolutionized the treatment of many chronic and acute illnesses, including cancer. The latest advance comes in the form of biosimilars. At the JADPRO Live at APSHO conference, Kelley D. Mayden, MSN, FNP, AOCNP, of Wellmont Cancer Institute, Bristol, Virginia, gave an A-to-Z talk about these drugs and what they mean for the advanced practitioner in oncology. “The science of cr...

Old Familiar Faces

Capuchins recognize familiar faces

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2016.09.017 0003-3472/© 2016 The Association for the Study of A Although growing neural evidence suggests that human and nonhuman primates share a similar faceprocessing mechanism, evidence from behavioural research has been mixed. If primates share a similar face-processing system, one would expect to observe similar behavioural effects in both human and non...