Nov 2013: Nicky Clayton and clever crows, and mice that eat scorpions

Nicky Clayton joins me in this month's Beepcast, telling me what sparked her interest in bird intelligence, and how she mixes science with the art of dance. I learn about a mouse with an unusual superpower: immunity to the sting of a scorpion. I also interview Culum Brown of Macquarie University, Australia, who studies how young rainbow fish sniff out lurking predators.

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A southern grasshopper mouse eats the Arizona bark scorpion that it has just killed. Credit: Ashlee and Matthew Rowe

Quicklinks:
Culum Brown's webpage
Ashlee Rowe's webpage
Nicky Clayton's webpage