Female butterflies can smell if a male butterfly is inbred

Post by **Pete Eeles** » Wed Mar 06, 2013 10:19 pm

Thanks to Mark Elsdon (University of Cambridge) for pointing this out:

http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/fema ... -is-inbred

Cheers,

- Pete

legless2007 · Post by **legless2007** » Sun Mar 10, 2013 1:48 pm

Thank you, this is really interesting

Jo

David M · Post by **David M** » Sun Mar 10, 2013 7:42 pm

Just when you think butterflies are lower order creatures, along comes research that suggests quite the opposite.

Shame it doesn't extend to humans - the government would have the welfare budget under control within months!!

Female butterflies can smell if a male butterfly is inbred

Female butterflies can smell if a male butterfly is inbred

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