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Fooled by Nature – Bat vs Underwing moth video

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8psKvn0_3w

Video clip from Animal Planet show, “Fooled by Nature” describes how a moth detects and responds to bat echolocation. Used for discussion of Tinbergen’s 4 questions – mechanisms.

Course content area – Sexual Selection

Course – Evolution & Behavior (100 level)

Campus – Hunter College

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Coevolution of toxic newts video

Link: https://youtu.be/xW6qZNcTGwU?si=wCx70HYAErMbbYc2

Video on youtube describing how researchers discovered why rough-skinned newts evolved to be the most toxic.

Video is also available from PBS with edited captions: https://cptv.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/tdc02.sci.life.evo.toxicnewts/toxic-newts/

Course content area – Natural Selection

Course – Evolution & Behavior (100 level)

Campus – Hunter College