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#olfactory — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #olfactory, aggregated by home.social.

  1. "Sniffing, searching, naming: These actions enable us to more thoughtfully engage with our environment. The more I sniffed at bark, the more confused I became. What did pine even smell like, anyway? It was only when I stepped back that the forest came into view. Iconic and piney, certainly, but also so much more." —Katy Kelleher for Nautilus Magazine

    nautil.us/scent-makes-a-place-

    #longreads #editorspicks #scent #smell #olfactory #science

  2. About the #diphenism in #migratorylocusts with an #explication about the #difference between #polymorphism and #polyphenism, and about new research on the function of #olfactory #perception in a #swarm related to the context of perceiving #conspecifics and #food

    © #StefanFWirth 2024

    My #blog article on "#biologe"
    wp.me/p2l6XU-1Tp

    Source
    I. Petelski et al. preprint (2023):
    doi.org/10.1101/2023.09.15.557

    #photos #Schistocerca #gregaria, fig1 is a freshly #molted #adult ©S. F. Wirth