Pheromones
21 Feb, 2019
590 Animals (Zoology)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how members of the same species send each other invisible chemical signals to influence the way they behave. Pheromones are used by species across the animal kingdom in a variety of ways, such as laying trails to be followed, to raise the alarm, to scatter from predators, to signal dominance and to enhance attractiveness and, in honey bees, even direct development into queen or worker.
Guests
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Tristram Wyatt No other episodes
Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Zoology at the University of Oxford -
Jane Hurst No other episodes
William Prescott Professor of Animal Science at the University of Liverpool -
Francis Ratnieks No other episodes
Professor of Apiculture and Head of the Laboratory of Apiculture and Social Insects at the University of Sussex
Reading list
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Principles of Animal Communication
Jack W. Bradbury and Sandra L. Vehrencamp (Sinauer, 2011) Google Books → -
For Love of Insects
Thomas Eisner (Harvard University Press, 2005) Google Books → -
Pheromones and Animal Behavior: Chemical Signals and Signatures
Tristram D. Wyatt (Cambridge University Press, 2014) Google Books → -
Animal Behaviour: A Very Short Introduction
Tristram D. Wyatt (Oxford University Press, 2017) Google Books →
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