Let Inga Tell You: My neighborhood owls are quite a hoot

The owl population around my place has flourished in recent years, but I have to wonder if it’s because my rodent population ...
Dublin Inquirer

In the Liberties, a sculptor strives to build a better rat trap

At the Cast Foundry, Antoine Daure is working on his series Trap, aiming to create 10 to 15 variants for a future exhibition.
eLife

PKD2L1 channels segregated to the apical compartment are the exclusive dual-mode pH sensor in cerebrospinal fluid-contacting neurons

This is an important study on the sensory roles of Cerebrospinal fluid-contacting neurons (CBF-cn) in mammals. The authors identify PKD2L1 as the predominant pH-sensing channel CBF-cn and show how the ...
Nature

Rats prefer the Home Cage to the Runway following Intermittent but not Consistent Reinforcement

SEVERAL sources of evidence suggest that, in both the Skinner box and runway, an intermittent schedule of reinforcement could be a source of aversion. Time-out studies show that when a pigeon or rat ...
AZ Animals

Think Rescued Foxes Go Free? Sadie and Seth’s Story Shatters the Myth

Meet Sadie and Seth, two foxes born into unfortunate circumstances that were rescued by ZooTampa. As part of a fur operation in rural Ohio where hundreds of animals lived in small wire cages through ...