Motivation and Dopamine Release from Disinhibition in the VTA
[6:04] The lateral hypothalamus (LH) sends an inhibitory projection to the ventral tegmental area (VTA) that modulat…
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How Dogs Interpret Our Praise
[0:59] “Who’s a good boy?” Your dog construes your words and happy tone to know you mean him. [Video source: Scien…
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Visual Stimuli that Cause Mice to Freeze or Flee
[5:08] Mice are an increasingly popular animal model for understanding vision in health and disease, but we know littl…
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Ever wondered why birds don’t crash into each other?
[0:43] Biologists have figured out why birds don’t smash into each other in flight. [Video source: New Scientis…
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Slow Motion Flipping Cat Physics
[6:25] High Speed video. Cats. Physics. Weightlessness. Of all my videos, if you don’t share this one, you proba…
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Gut Feelings: How Intestinal Bacteria Regulate Emotion and Behavior
[13:06] Biologist Sarkis Mazmanian presented “Gut Feelings: How Intestinal Bacteria Regulate Emotion and Behavi…
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How Mosquitoes Use Six Needles to Suck Your Blood
[3:17] Seen up close, the anatomy of a mosquito bite is terrifying. The most dangerous animal in the world uses six needl…
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Animals in the Circus Hit, Bullied, Chained, and Deprived
[2:30] In 2015, an eyewitness visited Suzhou, China, which encompasses more than 300 circuses, to go inside 10 differe…
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The orangutan who can make his own imaginary cocktails
[0:55] By providing a captive orang-utan with its own personal cocktail bar, a group of researchers discovered that th…
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How Do Chameleons Change Color?
[5:41] New research shows chameleons actively tune nano-crystals to change their color. [Source: Veritasium YouT…
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