Natalidae: Information
Furipteridae: Information
Equidae: Information
Erinaceidae: Information
Caviidae: Information
Bovidae: Information
Ochotonidae: Information
Hippopotamidae: Information
Leporidae: Information
In this video module, students learn how scientists use genetic information from dogs to find out which gene (out of all 20,000 dog genes) is associated with any specific trait or disease of interest. This method involves comparing hundreds of dogs with the trait to hundreds of dogs not displaying the trait, and examining which position on the dog DNA is correlated with the trait (i.e. has one DNA sequence in dogs with the trait but another DNA sequence in dogs not displaying the trait). Students will also learn something about the history of dog breeds and how this history helps us find genes.
Felidae: Information
Tenrecidae: Information
Rhinocerotidae: Information
Sciuridae: Information
Tachyglossidae: Information
In this first video, Alison Sweeney talks about work that has been done in the Morse lab on Squid iridescence.
Robert Sandler tells the story of doliolid reproduction. The video was made with paper puppets and hand-drawn animations. Robert made this episode with support from the Society of Royce Fellows.
If you are stuck to a rock it is tricky to get close enough to a partner to mate. One solution to this problem would be to release eggs or sperm into the open water, which is what many animals in this situation do. Acorn barnacles (Semibalanus balanoides), however, found a different solution. They have evolved the longest penis relative to their body size of any animal. In this video the penises of several barnacles are probing the neighborhood for mates. The penis is re-grown each mating season.
Riley Thompson, from the College of the Atlantic, tells the story of how animals become invisible.
Students will examine clues about animals such as nests, leaves, feathers, fur, tracks that allow some conclusions about the identity, physical characteristics or behavior of the animals. Students will study the characteristics of animal tracks.