This is Samuel Henderson, a young birder who's gone viral for his incredibly accurate bird call imitations.
His ability to recreate the sounds of different bird species is truly impressive.
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Jo Nagai was raising swallowtail butterflies at his home in Kobe, Japan, when he noticed something odd. The ones he had looked after as caterpillars seemed to recognize him. Wild butterflies fled. His didn't.
He was in second grade. He wrote a four-page letter to Dr. Martha Weiss, an entomologist at Georgetown University who had studied whether moths could retain memories through metamorphosis. He asked if she could help him design a version of her experiment for butterflies.
She said yes.
Using a muscle therapy device, Jo trained caterpillars to associate the scent of lavender with a mild vibration. When the caterpillars became butterflies, 70 per cent of them still avoided the lavender. Their brains had been completely rebuilt during metamorphosis. The memory survived anyway.
Then he bred them.
The offspring, which had never been trained, also avoided lavender. So did their grandchildren. Without ever experiencing the vibration, two generations of butterflies inherited an aversion to a scent their grandmother had been taught to fear.
Jo documented it all in a 33-page research paper and presented his findings at the International Congress of Entomology in Kobe in 2024. He was 10.
A second grader wrote a letter to a Georgetown professor, and together they found evidence that butterflies can pass memories down through generations.
-Wilderness Whisper
Monday message.
PLEASE LISTEN CLOSELY (I don’t get bossy too often 😉)
This picture is NOT about the 🏆
IT IS ABOUT PEOPLE. The 2 carrying 🏆 drive us on the 🚌 (BJ) and take care of our equipment (YETI-aka Mr Hotard)
THEY LOVE-SERVE-CARE THE RED TEAM BEAUTIFULLY. ONE TEAM ❤️
Today is Divine Mercy Sunday.
The original Image, painted at the direction of St Faustina, can be directly overlaid on the Shroud of Turin.
Behold, your King!
1st weekend of @MarchMadnessMBB ✅
After 48 games the Sweet Sixteen is set, but at Zoomph we ranked the top 16 teams on social media based on total engagement for the 1st two rounds 🔽
"How lucky are we that we're going to play basically a road game in the NCAA Tournament. So much for neutral site."
@TheAndyKatz told Vanderbilt head coach Mark Byington that Nebraska's fans created the best opening round crowd he's ever seen.
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#Huskers#GBR