An unprecedented study of 123 bird species reveals clues about how some birds produce such…
Browsing: Animal Behavior
A humpback whale mother stayed beside her dead calf for hours, possibly days, in a…
Bumblebees carried more heavy metals than honeybees sharing the same landscape, suggesting that pollution exposure…
A Stanford study found that mountain lion visits to Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve set off…
Lipid droplets in the kidneys may help cats maintain a consistent chemical “scent identity.” Scent…
Red-winged blackbirds largely avoided striking rattlesnakes while aggressively attacking gopher snakes, revealing a striking difference…
A dolphin rises from the water carrying an empty seashell in its jaws, but the…
Whole carcass feeding on a feast and fast schedule encouraged zoo-housed lions to display feeding…
CT scans reveal new clues to how the dodo sensed its environment and challenge its…
Whale sharks use a wider range of feeding strategies and depths than surface observations previously…
Pressure-resistant air sacs allow lake fly larvae to dive hundreds of meters and complicate a…
Parenting may have evolved by repurposing the brain’s ancient hunger circuits. Long before parenting became…
New research suggests that the ancient animal Spriggina floundersi tended to bend to the right,…
Humidity governs the daily rhythms of some insects, raising the question of whether it affects…
A dog’s nose is a gateway to a richer world, and scent-filled walks, games, and…
Chimpanzee stone-throwing sites may preserve rare evidence of primate culture and communication. In the savanna…
Citizen science helped reveal that parental care in harvestmen has evolved repeatedly across their evolutionary…
This nocturnal rainforest spider has evolved an unusually specialized hunting strategy, using a silk-powered snare…