Introduction to Neuroscience 2: Lecture 26: Neuroethology

This is the last lecture in this course, and it's a bit like as if a neuroscientist made a Nove episode for animal planet. Neuroethology is the subfield of neuroscience that studies the evolutionary and comparative approach to understanding how neural networks regulate adaptive behaviors. Today we will learn about three examples from the field of neuroethology. First, I present how the brain of the mustached brown bat regulates echolocation. Second, we learn about how the star-nosed mole uses its star to hunt for tiny prey items and how the star is represented in the somatosensory cortex. Last, we learn about the complex coevolution of predator and prey between the tentacled snake and fish.

[pranjalib.]

I loved the way he made sounds of bat or cars to bring the effect!
Loved the video! So informative!

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A chinese idion for the snake's stategy is called 声东击西

[hermannhinterhauser]

The star nose is a little like the whiskers of cats