Feb 2015: Damien Farine, penguins who can't taste, and shiny tree swallows

This month, I find out that penguins can’t tell the difference between savoury and sweet. I also chat with Sonia Van Wijk from The Université de Sherbrooke in Quebec, Canada, about what makes a male tree swallow attractive to a female who's on the look-out for more than one partner. And in the Scientific spark, I talk to social network whizz Damien Farine, from the University of Oxford, about his path into science. Download the MP3 Adelie penguins from Quicklinks: Sonia Van Wijk's Research Gate page The penguin taste loss paper in Current Biology Damien Farine's webpage

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