Category: Animal and Plant Biology
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Peckings Cause Brain Damage in Woodpeckers: Nay or Yay?
I remember seeing a woodpecker in my grandma’s home when I was around seven or eight. It happily pecked at a wooden pillar in the garden with its beak. “This is what they do all the time! It is their natural behavior,” my grandma said. After a long time, early this year, when we had…
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How Do Planarians Grow a New Brain?
Every time I explain my work, everyone is fascinated that these aquatic flatworms can grow new body parts after injury, but they don’t understand how. Through visual media, I have been able to better communicate how regeneration works in this seemingly simple organism. Drawing the process makes it easier to follow the timeline of growth,…
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