In the early 2000s the New Caledonian crow Betty in Oxford shocked the world when she spontaneously bent a hook into a straight piece of wire while trying to retrieve a small out-off-reach basket with a handle from a vertical ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 5, 2017
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The first study into rarely documented ground-nest building by wild chimpanzees offers new clues about the ancient transition of early hominins from sleeping in trees to sleeping on the ground. While most apes build nests ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 16, 2012
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Nest-building is not just instinctive but is a skill that birds learn from experience, research suggests.
Plants & Animals
Sep 26, 2011
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Biologists present the latest innovation in nest building: bird nests made from anti-nesting spikes. Researchers from Naturalis Biodiversity Center and the Natural History Museum Rotterdam collected these special nests for ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 13, 2023
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When you hear beautiful birdsong, such as the warbling of the Australasian magpie, you might believe it's a sign of intense competition for territory or showing off to attract a mate.
Plants & Animals
Jan 17, 2023
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When building a nest, previous experience raising chicks will influence the choices birds make, according to a new study by University of Alberta scientists.
Plants & Animals
Feb 25, 2021
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Anyone who spends most of their day indoors knows the importance of a comfortable atmosphere to work and live in. Researchers from EPFL's Solar Energy and Building Physics Laboratory are searching for ways to maximize the ...
Energy & Green Tech
Sep 25, 2018
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Researchers at the University of St Andrews have produced the first experimental evidence that birds actively select nest-building materials that camouflage their nests: published today in influential ornithological journal ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 3, 2014
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Once the snow melts, Canada's bee population will be back in business—pollinating, making honey and keeping busy doing bee things. For at least two urban bee species, that means making nests out of plastic waste.
Plants & Animals
Feb 11, 2014
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(PhysOrg.com) -- When a scientist discovers a new species, one of hardest tasks is naming it. A Cornell researcher faced this challenge many times over when he discovered 11 new U.S. sweat bee species (subgenus Lasioglossum ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 15, 2011
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