Flamingos form firm friendships
Flamingos form friendships that last for years, new research shows.
Plants & Animals
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News tagged with social interaction
Hunter-gatherer networks accelerated human evolution
Humans began developing a complex culture as early as the Stone Age. This development was brought about by social interactions between various groups of hunters and gatherers, a UZH study has now confirmed. The researchers ...
Social Sciences
Feb 28, 2020
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How ants get angry: Precise 'lock and key' process regulates aggression, acceptance
For most social animals, even humans, the ability to distinguish friend versus foe can be a challenge that often can lead to knee-jerk aggression. But when it comes to ants getting aggressive, there's a more sophisticated ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 3, 2020
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Researchers rank 'smartest' schools of fish when it comes to travel formations
The concert of motion that fish schools are famous for isn't merely an elaborate display of synchronized swimming. Their seemingly telepathic collective movement is part of a time-tested strategy for improving the group's ...
General Physics
Jan 29, 2020
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How genetics and social games drive evolution of mating systems in mammals
Traditional explanations for why some animals are monogamous and others are promiscuous or polygamous have focused on how the distribution and defensibility of resources (such as food, nest sites, or mates) determine whether, ...
Evolution
Dec 19, 2019
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Close friends help macaques survive
Close friendships improve the survival chances of rhesus macaques, new research shows.
Plants & Animals
Dec 10, 2019
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From firearms to fish—following patterns to discover causality
Mathematicians have successfully applied a new, pictorial approach to answer complex questions that puzzle analysts, such as, do media stories on firearm legislation influence gun sales? Cause-and-effect queries like this ...
General Physics
Nov 26, 2019
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Best of frenemies: Unexpected role of social networks in ecology
Social networking, even between competing species, plays a much bigger role in ecology than anyone previously thought, according to three biologists at the University of California, Davis.
Ecology
Nov 2, 2019
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Bird bacteria is key to communication and mating
Birds use odor to identify other birds, and researchers at Michigan State University have shown that if the bacteria that produce the odor is altered, it could negatively impact a bird's ability to communicate with other ...
Ecology
Oct 29, 2019
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Uncovering the hidden intelligence of collectives
In a group of animals, who deals with new information coming from the environment? Researchers from the University of Konstanz and the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior have discovered that the answer lies not in who, ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 24, 2019
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