Watching a mother mouse gather her pups into the family's nest trains other female mice without pups to perform the same parenting task, a new study shows. Furthermore, these observations lead to the production of oxytocin ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 11, 2021
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Working mothers are often expected to work like they don't have children and raise children as if they don't work. This impossible standard is at the root of gender inequalities in the workplace, according to two new Washington ...
Social Sciences
Jul 21, 2021
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In South Africa it is against the law to abandon a child—specifically an infant, in such a way that the baby is likely to die. But people are rarely prosecuted for this crime. This is usually because the perpetrator—often ...
Social Sciences
Jul 21, 2021
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Hyenas are a highly social species, living in groups that can number more than 100. But within their clans, there is order: A specific matrilineal hierarchy governs societies in this species where females are dominant to ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 15, 2021
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Wildlife rescuers in New Zealand were scrambling to keep a stranded baby orca alive Wednesday, as volunteers scoured waters off Wellington to find the calf's mother.
Ecology
Jul 14, 2021
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Across Colorado, parched rivers are at some of their lowest levels on record. But on one still spared by the drought, boisterous children and guides bob along as water splashes into their blue inflatable rafts.
Environment
Jul 5, 2021
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A fair society has evolved in banded mongooses because parents don't know which pups are their own, new research shows.
Plants & Animals
Jun 23, 2021
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The death of a mother is a traumatic event for immature offspring in species in which mothers provide prolonged maternal care, such as in long-lived mammals, including humans. Orphan mammals die earlier and have less offspring ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 17, 2021
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It might seem like a given that mothers take extra risks to protect their children, but have you ever wondered why? A new study led by Kumi Kuroda at the RIKEN Center for Brain Science (CBS) in Japan shows that in mice, this ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 1, 2021
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Immature female and male orangutans direct their social attention to different types of individuals, potentially to acquire the sex-specific ecological knowledge they will need in later life, according to a study publishing ...
Plants & Animals
May 19, 2021
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