Jay Rose Posted May 9, 2019 Report Share Posted May 9, 2019 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0037627 or summary https://science.slashdot.org/story/19/05/08/2314250/how-a-half-inch-beetle-finds-fires-80-miles-away Fire-Chaser Beetles have evolved a way suss out and find a forest fire fifty miles away. (They love to eat the recently-burned trees.) In many cases, they can sense infrared radiation from the fire even if it's at a level below local thermal noise! They're doing to heat what our brains do when we spot visual or acoustic patterns below random noise... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frode L Hvatum Posted May 10, 2019 Report Share Posted May 10, 2019 Cool! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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