Ever wondered if Humpback Whales like Clarinet music?

Thankfully Dr David Rothenberg of the New Jersey Institute of Technology may have found the answer to that question in his paper To Wail With a Whale: Anatomy of an Interspecies Duet.

"Why?" you may ask, and thankfully the author tells us...

Having spent several years playing my clarinet to ( Read more... )

A while back, I posted about the latest exhibition at the Horniman Museum. I finally got around to going to see it yesterday.

The Robot Zoo is a fun way of showing how animals bodies function mechanically and includes things like how grasshoppers jump, how the blood flow in the neck of a giraffe is controlled and how bats use echo location. It's ( Read more... )