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Female butterflies can smell if a male butterfly is inbred
Posted: Wed Mar 06, 2013 10:19 pm
by Pete Eeles
Thanks to Mark Elsdon (University of Cambridge) for pointing this out:
http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/fema ... -is-inbred
Cheers,
- Pete
Re: Female butterflies can smell if a male butterfly is inbr
Posted: Sun Mar 10, 2013 1:48 pm
by legless2007
Thank you, this is really interesting
Jo
Re: Female butterflies can smell if a male butterfly is inbr
Posted: Sun Mar 10, 2013 7:42 pm
by David M
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!!