{"id":4707,"date":"2021-04-04T06:54:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-04T09:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/?p=4707"},"modified":"2021-04-04T06:54:00","modified_gmt":"2021-04-04T09:54:00","slug":"apr-12-2021-wayfinding-under-the-waves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/?p=4707","title":{"rendered":"Apr 12, 2021: Wayfinding Under the Waves\u201d."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"yiv3227841234MsoNormal\">Received from NSIS: &#8220;The Nova Scotian Institute of Science is pleased to present the\u00a0sixth\u00a0of its 2020-2021 free monthly public lectures on Monday,\u00a0April 12th, at 7:30pm.\u00a0 Dr.\u00a0Russell Wyeth will speak on \u201cWayfinding Under the Waves\u201d.\u00a0Due to Covid-19, this will be a virtual presentation on Zoom.\u00a0 The link is near the top of the \u201cPublic Lectures\u201d website page<span class=\"yiv3227841234apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/nsis.chebucto.org\/meetings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/nsis.chebucto.org\/meetings\/<\/a><span class=\"yiv3227841234apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>and will open just before the lecture.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dr. Russell Wyeth, Dept of Biology, St. Francis Xavier University<br \/>\nPresents: Wayfinding Under the Waves<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Navigation behaviour is something almost every animal does, choosing where to move through their habitat. In doing so, animals use a range of cues to find their way towards prey and mates and away from predators.<\/p>\n<p>Humans, like so many other terrestrial animals, rely heavily on vision for navigation. But in aquatic habitats, vision is often much less useful: the destination (whatever it may be) cannot be seen. Instead, natural selection has led to a range of alternate strategies in aquatic animals, involving chemical, mechanical and magnetic senses for wayfinding.<\/p>\n<p>This talk will give a taste of how navigation behaviour is different for animals underwater, and how marine biologists and the ocean community are exploring these extraordinary adaptations for survival in the ocean.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Received from NSIS: &#8220;The Nova Scotian Institute of Science is pleased to present the\u00a0sixth\u00a0of its 2020-2021 free monthly public lectures on Monday,\u00a0April 12th, at 7:30pm.\u00a0 Dr.\u00a0Russell Wyeth will speak on \u201cWayfinding Under the Waves\u201d.\u00a0Due to Covid-19, this will be a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/?p=4707\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4707"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4708,"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4707\/revisions\/4708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}