hello everyone,

i've gone birding with lots of people who spend their "nonbirding
time" looking for dragonflies and butterflies. i recently ran across a
very sweet research paper published in the journal, SCIENCE, that
details the relationship between environment and behaviour &
morphology in a butterfly species. i love this paper because it begins
to decipher one of the big questions that my own research looked at:
how does an animal translate its experience of the local external
environment into an internal change in behaviour and morphology?

http://gu.com/p/2mnzh/tf

this elegant research helps provide some answers, but like all good
research, it provides the framework to ask more questions than it
answers.

cheers,

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