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animal behavior
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High-tech cameras capture the secrets of venomous snake bites
A hypnale hypnale, a type of pit viper, strikes a target. Silke Cleuren Alistair Evans, Monash University For…
Jane Goodall, the gentle disrupter whose research on chimpanzees redefined what it meant to be human
Jane Goodall appears on stage at 92NY in New York on Oct. 1, 2023. Charles Sykes/Invision/AP Mireya Mayor,…
Why Don’t Animals Need to Go to the Gym?
While humans hit the gym to train, animals, from geese to kangaroos, perform incredible feats of endurance and strength through instinct and biological adaptation, rather than through intentional workouts.
Can AI teach us how animals think?
Shelley Brady, Dublin City University How is an animal feeling at a given moment? Humans have long recognised…
70 years of data show extreme heat is already wiping out tropical bird populations
DeAgostini/Getty Images James Watson, The University of Queensland; Maximilian Kotz, Barcelona Supercomputing Center-Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS), and…
Wolves carry pups miles to follow migrating elk herds
Challenging long-held beliefs, a new study reveals gray wolves in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem will migrate long distances with their young pups to hunt migrating elk.
Rockabye baby: the ‘love songs’ of lonely leopard seals resemble human nursery rhymes
CassandraSm/Shutterstock Lucinda Chambers, UNSW Sydney and Tracey Rogers, UNSW Sydney Late in the evening, the Antarctic sky flushes…
Study finds red-footed tortoises can experience moods
New research provides the first clear evidence that reptiles experience long-term mood states, a discovery that could reshape animal welfare laws and our understanding of sentience.
Hold up, humans. Ants figured out medicine, farming and engineering long before we did
Tambon Nong Chaeng/Pexels Tanya Latty, University of Sydney and Chris R. Reid, Macquarie University Think back to a…
Baboon travel lines shaped by friendship, not fear, study finds
New research reveals that baboons travel in orderly lines not for strategic protection but simply to stay close to their friends.