Living organisms communicate on many different channels, from chemical signalling to ultrasound, and wherever researchers look they find that these means of communication can also be used to deceive and spread fake news. A recent paper on deceptive pheromone signals in mantises luring the hopeful male partners to their death inspired me to have a deeper look at various kinds of natural deception that were discovered recently.
My feature is out now:
Deception on all channels
Current Biology Volume 35, Issue 18, 22 September 2025, Pages R865-R867
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See also my new Mastodon thread where I will highlight all this year's CB features.
My mastodon posts are also mirrored on Bluesky (starting 22.2.2025), but for this purpose I have to post them again, outside of the thread. (I think threads only transfer if the first post was transferred, so once I start a new thread it should work.)
Last year's thread is here .
In the springbok mantis Miomantis caffra, hungry females use dishonest pheromone signalling to attract males, which they then consume. (Photo: Bernard Dupont/Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0).)
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