Among the drivers of behaviour, external stimuli play a highly significant role, evoking responses that are often essential for an individual’s survival. Their importance is such that selective adaptation processes have favoured stereotyped and immediate responses to certain types of stimuli, classifying them as innate behaviours that the individual does […]
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In this book, biologist Jo Handelsman helps us recognize what we often overlook: soil erosion, a silent global crisis that threatens our very existence. With an engaging and informative style, rich in examples, the author explains why we are depleting fertile soil and how intensive agriculture, the excessive or inappropriate […]
During the height of spring, when nature is in full bloom, it often offers delightful surprises. The garden had been left a bit abandoned, the climatic instability had not allowed the usual care, invasive herbs had intruded into the passages, into the flowerbeds, among the flowering plants. The beautiful day […]
In a small town on the Gargano coast, when you don’t want to give something to a capricious child, you will say that he will get it “when the sea stops”. The incessant movements of the sea are the center of curiosity and observation of all human beings who have […]
By recommending “King Solomon’s Ring”, the book that made Konrad Lorenz and his research known to the general public, we want to talk precisely about the first steps that ethology, as a modern science, has taken.Considered by many to be the founder of ethology, Lorenz was awarded the 1973 Nobel […]