Fernando Otálora-Luna, Ph. D.

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Since I was a child, I was fascinated to find out how animals communicate —how they express themselves and how others interpret them. As a biologist, I want to understand how organisms share information. I want to comprehend how codes and signs implicit in diverse sensory cues (pheromones, colors, sounds, etc… as well as animal display behaviors) evoke meanings.

In my view the world of ‘living things’ may be defined in many ways, but the most fundamental focus is on information. Certainly, life is information moving from one living thing to another; genetic information as well as sensory information. Which inexorably evokes an orthodox question: how do organisms use their senses to survive? To respond to such a query I have conducted diverse physiological, behavioral and eco-epidemiological experiments for several years, and have found very challenging results —wise scientific answers that have prompted me to open novel questions.

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