Social ants are masters of cooperative disease defense. They collectively take care of each other to prevent the spread of infections within a colony. But how does an individual ant know whom it should groom? A multidisciplinary ...
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Scientists from Swansea University and the University of Cape Town have tracked social grooming behavior in wild baboons using collar-mounted accelerometers.
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Apr 21, 2023
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A pair of animal behaviorists, one from Utrecht University, in the Netherlands, the other from the University of London, has found that grooming handclasps in chimpanzees is a behavior transmitted between generations culturally.
Cats are popular pets. At times, their aggression towards humans and other problematic behavior poses challenges to our co-existence with them and can even result in giving up the pet. The causes underlying problematic behavior ...
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Nov 7, 2022
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A team of researchers affiliated with multiple institutions in Hungary, working with two colleagues from Spain and one each from the U.S. and Germany, has discovered the neuronal pathway in the rat brain that is responsible ...
Social bonding between randomly assigned college roommates is not only a human phenomenon, a new study on vampire bats suggests.
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Dairy cows have a natural drive to groom themselves and to scratch those hard-to-reach itches on their bodies. When given the opportunity, dairy cattle use mechanical brushes daily at every stage of their lives. A new study ...
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Oct 19, 2021
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Close friendships improve the survival chances of rhesus macaques, new research shows.
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Dec 10, 2019
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A team of researchers from the University of British Columbia and Warsaw University of Life Sciences has found that dairy cows are willing to expend energy to gain access to a grooming brush. In their paper published in the ...
Working together and exchanging services for the benefit of everyone involved is crucial for humans and partly responsible for our success as a species. In order to achieve a goal, we need to choose the best possible cooperation ...
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