Date/Time:
Date(s) - 26/09/2018
7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Location: Amgueddfa Genedlaethol y Glannau
Pris: Am Ddim
Addasrwydd: Oedolion
The wicked and difficult world of animal gambling; the tale of two penguins.
Professor Rory Wilson (Prifysgol Abertawe)
Gambling is conventionally thought to be an activity undertaken by man but actually animals do it all the time, and do so to survive! Most animals searching for food do so ‘probabilistically’. A swallow hunting for insects cannot know exactly when it will find the next insect but it can increase the chances of repeatedly ‘winning’ by searching in particular places and at particular times.
Animals do not bet with money; they bet with energy and they gamble that they will win more energy in the form of food than they spend finding it. This talk will look at the gambling conditions faced by animals, and, using two penguin species, highlight how man’s activities are changing the odds.
Ymunwch â ni bob mis i glywed gan arbenigwr yn eu maes gwyddonol, gyda sgwrs ac yna trafodaeth anffurfiol.
Gallwch wrando, neu gymryd rhan yn y drafodaeth.
https://amgueddfa.cymru/abertawe/digwyddiadau/10198/Oriel-Science-Cafe/
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