Flamingos found to form cliques with like-minded pals
Flamingos form cliques of like-minded individuals within their flocks, new research shows.
Plants & Animals
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News tagged with social animals
Whale clans use vocalizations to mark their culture
For decades, researchers and the public have been captivated by the deep-diving sperm whales, highly social animals who live in groups of mothers and calves. The whales communicate with Morse code-like series of clicks called ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 12, 2022
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Dietary study shows funerary meals of people in Roman Empire nearly the same as everyday meals
A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in Spain, working with a colleague from South Africa, has found that for some people living in the Roman Empire, funerary meals were much like everyday meals. In ...
The 'fuel of evolution' is more abundant than previously thought in wild animals
Darwinian evolution is the process by which natural selection promotes genetic changes in traits that favor survival and reproduction of individuals. How fast evolution happens depends crucially on the abundance of its "fuel": ...
Evolution
May 26, 2022
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Like college roommates, vampire bats bond when randomly paired
Social bonding between randomly assigned college roommates is not only a human phenomenon, a new study on vampire bats suggests.
Plants & Animals
Apr 5, 2022
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Being social generates larger genomes in snapping shrimp
In an article scheduled to publish in PNAS, on June 7, 2021, a team of researchers led by Columbia University's Dustin R. Rubenstein, a Professor of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology, found that within the same ...
Evolution
Jun 7, 2021
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A single day of competition in the wild is encoded in the songbird brain, finds study
Fighting among social animals is common as they compete for the resources they need to survive and reproduce. A winner and a loser will inevitably result from these interactions, but do these challenges also leave an unseen, ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 22, 2021
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Social distancing in nature
Forager ants do it, vampire bats do it, guppies do it, and mandrills do it. Long before humans learned about and started "social distancing due to COVID-19," animals in nature intuitively practiced social distancing when ...
Ecology
Mar 4, 2021
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New study finds earliest evidence for mammal social behavior
A new study led by paleontologists at the University of Washington and its Burke Museum of Natural History & Culture indicates that the earliest evidence of mammal social behavior goes back to the Age of Dinosaurs.
Plants & Animals
Nov 2, 2020
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Stone-age 'likes': Study establishes eggshell beads exchanged over 30,000 years
A clump of grass grows on an outcrop of shale 33,000 years ago. An ostrich pecks at the grass, and atoms taken up from the shale and into the grass become part of the eggshell the ostrich lays.
Archaeology
Mar 9, 2020
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