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| Mushishi and Behavioral Ecology: Building the Bridge of Scientific Understanding Matthew K LeFauve1, Billy A Tringali2. 1GZA GeoEnvironmental, Norwood, MA, USA.2Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN, USA |
Abstract
Encouraging a specific interest in behavioral ecology to a student or layperson can be challenging amidst other approachable topics in biology. Popular culture resources such as anime have been used as a mechanism to inspire a broad audience to connect their experiences with topics in science. Environmentalism and ecology have been widely explored across the anime genre and the message of ecological homeostasis is a core concept of one of the most well-received anime on Crunchyroll, Mushishi. Mushishi details the diversity of life as primordial organisms that can be found in almost every ecosystem and have roles in those ecosystems from mundane to fantastical. We evaluated the anime for explanations of core concepts in behavior. From those examples, we generated a survey to determine how a short clip could impart a specific example of the application of animal behavior using a neutral organism to the audience. This clip could be used across multiple levels of education, and our predicted results suggest that using mushishi will promote improved interest in learning about animal behavior and ecosystem homeostasis in student and layperson populations.
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