Vervet monkeys are quick and clever planners of the best route to follow on foraging trips, shows a new study. When dominant group mates are too far away to interfere, vervets tend to choose the shortest route along successive ...
Evolution
Apr 25, 2022
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Scientists at the National Policing Institute, George Mason University, Arizona State University, and University of Pennsylvania conducted a study with joint support from Arnold Ventures and the National Policing Institute. ...
Social Sciences
Mar 30, 2022
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Social mingling shapes and transforms the 'vocabularies' of apes, just like in humans, according to new research led by the University of Warwick.
Plants & Animals
Mar 21, 2022
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Hippopotamuses are rather vocal animals. Their "wheeze honk" calls can be heard over long distances, leading researchers to suspect the calls play an important role in maintaining social groups. Now, a study in the journal ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 24, 2022
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Humans aren't the only species whose social behaviors can impact their health. New research from The University of Texas at Austin shows that Verreaux's sifaka, a species of wild lemur native to Madagascar, have gut microbes ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 6, 2021
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Management of within-group conflict is a key feature of human lives and those of many social animals, with contestants known to adopt various strategies in the immediate aftermath to minimize costs. The study, published today ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 2, 2021
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Asian elephants are keen to cooperate with friends and have evolved strategies to mitigate competition in their social groups, but cooperation breaks down when food resources are limited, according to a study publishing September ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 28, 2021
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Social inequality can incite collective violence in an experimental setting, finds a new study by UCL researchers.
Social Sciences
Sep 22, 2021
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A team of researchers from Leiden University, University College London and the University of Amsterdam, has found that human infants laugh in ways that are more like chimpanzees than adult humans. In their paper published ...
A decade after scientists discovered that lab rats will rescue a fellow rat in distress, but not a rat they consider an outsider, new UC Berkeley research pinpoints the brain regions that drive rats to prioritize their nearest ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 13, 2021
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