Mammalogy Class

Part of my job as a curator at a museum that happens to be located on a university campus is to teach.  I happen to teach a course in the fall on mammals (Mammalogy).  This class is for graduate and undergraduate students here at the University of Florida.  However, today, I have the day off.  I have a great group of graduate students who work with me on the PhD research.  And, they are available to give guest lectures for me in my class. Today, one of my students, Angelo, is teaching my class about echolocation in mammals.  Its amazing how much similarity there is in the ways that different mammals have evolved the ability to echolocate.  In fact, some bats and whales even have a gene for hearing that is very similar through convergent evolution (two different organisms that have converged on the same type of amino acid sequence).  You can read about it here.  Thanks Angelo.