Sandra Cisneros English-language short story “Type of Zapnar” occasionally includes words and phrases from the Mexican dialect of Spanish. While the story doesn’t translate the Spanish text into English, the meaning can be inferred from the surrounding English text. Ana Castillo adopts a comparable approach to Spanish in her English-language novel So far from God. Both works thus remain accessible to all readers of English, not just those who can also read Spanish.

In a large community science effort, biologist Grace Herzel and colleagues collaborated with hundreds of students and other amateur science enthusiasts for more than three years to study how butterfly color and weather conditions relate to butterfly behavior. They found that butterfly color might influence behavior more than butterfly size does, and that butterflies tended to prefer orange and red flowers on cloudy days and multicolor flowers on partly cloudy days.

Sheep and macaque monkeys can see in three dimensions (3D), which helps them perceive distance and depth. Octopuses and squid are thought to lack 3D vision. Many researchers once thought the same about cuttlefish, but Trevor Wardill and his team wanted to test whether this assumption was true. The team studied how cuttlefish wearing 3D glasses reacted to 3D images of shrimp (a favorite prey) projected on a tank wall. Cuttlefish changed their striking position to match the 3D images, suggesting that their vision is more like that of sheep and macaque monkeys than that of octopuses or squid.

Toads and macaque monkeys can see in three dimensions (3D), which helps them perceive distance and depth. Octopuses and squid are thought to lack 3D vision. Many researchers once thought the same about cuttlefish, but Trevor Wardill and his team wanted to test whether this assumption was true. The team studied how cuttlefish wearing 3D glasses reacted to 3D images of shrimp (a favorite prey) projected on a tank wall. Cuttlefish changed their striking position to match the 3D images, suggesting that their vision is more like that of toads and macaque monkeys than that of octopuses or squid.