Why do cats knead?
"Kneading" is when cats massage an object with the front paws, which extend and retract, one paw at a time.
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Dogs distinguish between intentional and unintentional action
Over their long shared history, dogs have developed a range of skills for bonding with human beings. Their ability to make sense of human actions, demonstrated by every "sit," "lay down," and "roll over," is just one such ...
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Mine-sniffing rat Magawa ends years of hard work in Cambodia
After five years of sniffing out land mines and unexploded ordnance in Cambodia, Magawa is retiring.
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Jun 5, 2021
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Ranging behavior found to impact motor self-regulation in free-range chickens
A team of researchers from Yncréa Hauts-de-France and Université de Tours, has found that the ranging behavior of free-range chickens can impact their motor self-regulation. In their paper published in the journal Biology ...
Orangutans make complex economic decisions about tool use depending on the current 'market' situation
Flexible tool use is closely associated with higher mental processes such as the ability to plan actions. Now a group of cognitive biologists and comparative psychologists from the University of Vienna, the University of ...
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Goffin's cockatoos can create and manipulate novel tools
Goffin's cockatoos can tear cardboard into long strips as tools to reach food—but fail to adjust strip width to fit through narrow openings, according to a study published November 7, 2018 in the open-access journal PLOS ...
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Sharks can acquire a taste for jazz music
While for many people sharks bring to mind the Jaws theme music, it seems sharks themselves prefer jazz.
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May 8, 2018
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Predators learn to identify prey from other species
Wolves purportedly raised Romulus and Remus, who went on to rule Rome. Is there good scientific evidence for learning across species? Researchers at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) in Panama wanted to know ...
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Wolves found to be more cooperative with their own kind than dogs with theirs
(Phys.org)—A team of researchers from the Wolf Science Center and the Comparative Cognition, Messerli Research Institute, both part of the Medical University of Vienna, has found that packs of wolves behave more cooperatively ...
Crows and kea parrots found to learn usefulness of objects similar to the way human babies do it
(Phys.org)—An international team of researchers has found via experimentation that New Caledonian crows and kea parrots learn about the usefulness of objects by playing with them—similar to human baby behavior. In their ...
