Tasting like a lion
Guests sample six different concoctions to understand how animals taste. Cats don't taste sweet so a sweet substance was tasted followed by a sweet blocker followed by another draft of…
Body odors signal threat?
Amy Gordon,left, a first year grad student who works at the Monell Center, welcomed guests to a Philadelphia Science Festival program on how animals, smell and taste at Rembrandt's Restaurant…
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Members’ Night at Academy of Natural Sciences
WHAT ARE YOU FINDING ON MEMBERS’ NIGHT?
Eli: I found a shell and the picture I colored and another picture of a bird
Michael: a red knot
Eli: eating something
Michael: horseshoe crab eggs.
Eli: The shell looks like this. It’s a crown conch.
Michael: Do you know the guy giving out the pictures is also a resident of Chestnut Hill? Doug Wechsler.
Eli Zickler of Chestnut Hill with grandfather, Michael left, father Joel and sister Lucy, right, at the Academy of Natural Sciences members’ night. Watch video interview here.
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