Natural Selections
Audio
On maples (and treefrogs) protecting themselves - audio edition
0:00
Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -10:47
-10:47

Paid episode

The full episode is only available to paid subscribers of Natural Selections

On maples (and treefrogs) protecting themselves - audio edition

An Hypothesis

This week’s post is deep in the weeds, almost literally. But I pull out for a brief lesson on phenotypic plasticity, including the ever popular (at least in my head): red-eyed tree frog eggs evading predation by hungry cat-eyed snakes, by hatching out at top speed and braving it among the aquatic predators instead:

Finally, we have what is perhaps my fav…

This post is for paid subscribers