http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2009/04/10/flies-get-the-buzz-on-sexy-mates-from-each-other/ Mon, 26 Nov 2012 12:00:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2009/04/10/flies-get-the-buzz-on-sexy-mates-from-each-other/#comment-3133 AlekNovy Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:33:46 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2009/04/10/flies-get-the-buzz-on-sexy-mates-from-each-other/#comment-3133 Many experiments have been done in humans. Obviously not with tubes... but with videos and photos. Men are always deemed more attractive physically if they are with attractive women in the photo. Its pretty much already proven in humans, this experiment was interesting because they didn't expect to find it in insects. Many experiments have been done in humans. Obviously not with tubes… but with videos and photos. Men are always deemed more attractive physically if they are with attractive women in the photo.
Its pretty much already proven in humans, this experiment was interesting because they didn’t expect to find it in insects.

]]> http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2009/04/10/flies-get-the-buzz-on-sexy-mates-from-each-other/#comment-3132 Joshua Zelinsky Mon, 13 Apr 2009 00:52:30 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2009/04/10/flies-get-the-buzz-on-sexy-mates-from-each-other/#comment-3132 How can they tell in the experiment with the color categorization that the female was actually categorizing and not simply concluding that when the male was the same color that it was the same male she had seen earlier? How can they tell in the experiment with the color categorization that the female was actually categorizing and not simply concluding that when the male was the same color that it was the same male she had seen earlier?

]]> http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2009/04/10/flies-get-the-buzz-on-sexy-mates-from-each-other/#comment-3131 Nathan Myers Sun, 12 Apr 2009 08:09:41 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2009/04/10/flies-get-the-buzz-on-sexy-mates-from-each-other/#comment-3131 The astonishing thing about this work isn't the choices the flies made. What's astonishing is that they were able to perceive what was going on and make meaningful inferences based on those perceptions. These are creatures whose brains I wouldn't even be able to <i>see</i> without a hefty magnifying glass. It's one thing to know there's another fly of the right species there, another to recognize it's the opposite sex, and a third to determine how healthy it is. It's entirely something else again to recognize one of the <i>wrong color</i>, without even hearing or smelling it, and yet another to be able to tell, under those conditions, that it's mating. The astonishing thing about this work isn’t the choices the flies made. What’s astonishing is that they were able to perceive what was going on and make meaningful inferences based on those perceptions. These are creatures whose brains I wouldn’t even be able to see without a hefty magnifying glass.
It’s one thing to know there’s another fly of the right species there, another to recognize it’s the opposite sex, and a third to determine how healthy it is. It’s entirely something else again to recognize one of the wrong color, without even hearing or smelling it, and yet another to be able to tell, under those conditions, that it’s mating.

]]> http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2009/04/10/flies-get-the-buzz-on-sexy-mates-from-each-other/#comment-3130 Lilian Nattel Fri, 10 Apr 2009 18:49:31 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2009/04/10/flies-get-the-buzz-on-sexy-mates-from-each-other/#comment-3130 I shouldn't project fly behaviour on humans or vice versa, but this did make me smile. It is so like people. I shouldn’t project fly behaviour on humans or vice versa, but this did make me smile. It is so like people.

]]> http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2009/04/10/flies-get-the-buzz-on-sexy-mates-from-each-other/#comment-3129 Ed Yong Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:22:44 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2009/04/10/flies-get-the-buzz-on-sexy-mates-from-each-other/#comment-3129 <a href="http://dilbert.com/dyn/str_strip/000000000/00000000/0000000/000000/40000/8000/000/48089/48089.strip.gif" rel="nofollow">Try this</a> Try this

]]> http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2009/04/10/flies-get-the-buzz-on-sexy-mates-from-each-other/#comment-3128 Dennis Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:18:54 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2009/04/10/flies-get-the-buzz-on-sexy-mates-from-each-other/#comment-3128 There's hope for me yet! Now I just gotta find some women and pay them to show interest in me. Where would someone find women like that? Hmmm. There’s hope for me yet! Now I just gotta find some women and pay them to show interest in me. Where would someone find women like that? Hmmm.

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