Passing down shared knowledge from one generation to the next is a hallmark of culture and allows animals to rapidly adapt to a changing environment.
Plants & Animals
Mar 9, 2023
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High up in the canopy of the Brazilian rainforest, clinging unsteadily to its mother's back, a wild newborn bearded capuchin monkey with a non-functioning left leg was beating the odds. Observations of the disabled infant ...
A new study has shown that bumblebees pick up new "trends" in their behavior by watching and learning from other bees, and that one form of a behavior can spread rapidly through a colony even when a different version gets ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 7, 2023
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Scientists have shown that honeybees retain a memory of the dominant linear landscape elements in their home area like channels, roads, and boundaries. When transported to an unfamiliar area, they seek out local elements ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 5, 2023
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Ants are known as hard workers, tirelessly attending to their assigned tasks—foraging for food, nurturing larvae, digging tunnels, tidying the nest. But in truth, some are total layabouts. Called workerless social parasites, ...
Evolution
Mar 3, 2023
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Flamingos form cliques of like-minded individuals within their flocks, new research shows.
Plants & Animals
Mar 1, 2023
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Researchers have used nearly half a million fossils to solve a 200-year-old scientific mystery: why the number of different species is greatest near the equator and decreases steadily toward the polar regions. The results—published ...
Ecology
Feb 15, 2023
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.The idea that forest trees can "talk" to each other, share resources with their seedlings—and even protect them—through a connective underground web of delicate fungal filaments tickles the imagination.
Ecology
Feb 13, 2023
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Researchers of the Department of Ethology, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) have been investigating dogs' reactions to wolf howls. Are there dogs that are more prone to reply with howling? Are these dogs genetically closer ...
Ecology
Feb 6, 2023
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A team of researchers at the University of Turin, working with a colleague from the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics and another from Aarhus University and The Royal Academy of Music, has found that the lar gibbon ...
