Boiling Point 1st Augst 2017 Bettongs, ravens and upside-down fish

Posted on by Nick La Rosa

What do bettongs, ravens, and upside-down fish have in common?

They were all on Boiling Point tonight!

Alex explored some fishy concepts, finding apparently both humans and fish have problems recognising upside-down faces

And Charlotte found ravens (a corvid) are capable of planning for the future as well as a 4-yr old child!

News from UNSW science this week revealed a little exposure to a bad thing is well, a good thing with small mammals being exposed to predators having a higher survival rate than non exposed counterparts.

A study of burrowing bettongs in the Australian desert has shown for the first time that exposing threatened native animals to small numbers of predators in the wild teaches them how to avoid their enemies Courtesy UNSW Newsroom
A study of burrowing bettongs in the Australian desert has shown for the first time that exposing threatened native animals to small numbers of predators in the wild teaches them how to avoid their enemies Courtesy UNSW Newsroom