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Escape Hatch: The Tough Choices of Treefrog Embryos
Biology professor Karen Warkentin has found that red-eyed treefrog embryos are capable of assessing a variety of threats in surprising ways, and if danger presents itself, they can choose to hatch days earlier than they typically would. The process [...]is called environmentally cued hatching, and in the last decade researchers have found evidence that it works for all kinds of animals—from flatworms and snails to fishes, from frogs and salamanders to turtles and birds.
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MFA Exhibition 2011: Zach Horn (CFA'11)
Zach Horn, a painting MFA candidate in CFA, talks about his trip to the Ecuadorean rainforest, and the creative freedom the school of visual arts gives to its students. His work, and other MFA sculpture and painting candidates work, is displayed.
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BU Abroad: Touching the Sky in Tiputini
For Nathan, it wasn't what he found at the Tiputini Biodiversity Station that had an impact on him as much as what he couldn't find. My time in the jungle made me realize how much of the natural world we don't see on a daily basis, he says, and how [...]much more there is that we wont see. Nathan spent last spring in Ecuador on the Quito Language and Liberal Arts Program. Along with studying in Quito, the two visited the Tiputini Biodiversity Station, which is jointly managed by Boston University and the Universidad San Francisco de Quito.
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