Aug 2014: Marlene Zuk, hummingbird taste perception, and magpie thieves

In this 1st birthday episode, I find out about some more avian criminals of the animal kingdom. I learn that most birds can’t taste sugar, but hummingbirds can, and I learn how. And in the Scientific Spark, I talk to Marlene Zuk, Professor of behavioural and evolutionary biology at the University of Minnesota. Together with Bill Hamilton, Marlene proposed the good genes hypothesis of sexual selection Download the MP3 Quicklinks: Maude Baldwin's Science paper on Hummingbird sweet taste page Prof. Marlene Zuk's webpage Dr Toni Shephard's paper on magpies Crab Exeter on twitter

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This episode was published on Sep 10, 2014.

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