In this episode of The Highlights, we're joined by Mary Caswell (Cassie) Stoddard, a professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (EEB). We discuss her career in sensory ecology and color vision in birds, her field experiments in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, and the science of nonspectral colors.
This episode of The Highlights was produced under the 145th Managing Board of The Daily Princetonian in partnership with Princeton Insights. Cassie Stoddard is a professor in the Stoddard Lab of EEB. She can be reached at mstoddard@princeton.edu.
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Princeton Insights coverage: Prince, perception and purple: The colorful world of wild hummingbirds
Original Paper: Wild hummingbirds discriminate nonspectral colors
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Written/Hosted by Thiago Tarraf Varella GS and Jarome Ali GS
Edited by Sophia Villacorta
Produced by Isabel Rodrigues
Original Insights Coverage by Jarome Ali GS
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