TV Guide: The Birds And The Bees

Video: They Have Chemistry: How Lobsters Communicate, Mate

Hulu — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 03:23:58 -0500

Researchers studying lobsters in 1984 find the crustaceans send signals and mate using an acute sense of smell and the release of chemicals that they fan through the water with their fins.

Video: Why Don’t Captive Cheetahs Breed? Culprit: Soy in Diet

Hulu — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 03:23:58 -0500

Investigating reproductive failure and deaths of captive cheetahs in zoos, researchers find culprit in 1988: soybean products in their diet. When switched back to an all-meat diet, cheetahs go into heat.

Video: How Penguins Recognize Calls of Their Mates, Babies, in Din of Penguin Colony

Hulu — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 03:23:58 -0500

Researchers study how penguins recognize the individual calls of other penguins -- their mates, their babies -- amongst the calls of 1,000 other penguins in a colony. (It's all in the tune, tone and timing.)

Video: Current Affairs: How Electric Fish Communicate to Mates

Hulu — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 03:23:58 -0500

In 1988, researchers at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography study how species of electric fish send and receive electrical pulses and signals to communicate, locate mates and mate.

Video: Humming Toadfish Are the Buzz of Sausalito

Hulu — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 03:23:58 -0500

In 1986, houseboat dwellers in Sausalito, California report hearing a droning hum from underwater. Marine biologists identify it as the mating call of the plainfin midshipman, aka the toadfish.

Video: Scientists Study the Resilient, “Disgusting” Cockroach

Hulu — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 03:23:58 -0500

Scientists at the University of Florida study how German cockroaches and water bugs, or palmetto bugs, eat, live, reproduce: five fertile females can become 45 million cockroaches in one year.

Video: How Frogs ID the Mating Calls (or Croaks) of Their Species

Hulu — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 03:23:58 -0500

Researchers at the University of Missouri study the mating habits of three frogs in 1987, and prove the innate ability of female frogs to recognize the precise trills of male frogs of their species.

Video: Breeding Success: More Baby Gorillas, Born, Survive, in Zoos

Hulu — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 03:23:58 -0500

In 1989, zoos in Atlanta and elsewhere have success breeding gorillas in captivity when the zoos no longer isolate pregnant females at the time of birth, but allow them to stay with males and their gorilla group.

Video: Silent Deep Isn’t So Silent: Translating Fish “Chatter”

Hulu — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 03:23:58 -0500

A Miami scientist records the chatter of striped damselfish in 1987, interprets the meaning of different sounds, and directs their behavior by playing back sounds associated with mating, aggression and diving.