Huge population fluctuations could have preceded passenger pigeon extinction
Study shows social comb-footed spiders have two distinct types of personalities
Study shows crayfish exhibit anxiety-like behavior when stressed
Study shows toddlers can produce a novel action after observing a correlation, while New Caledonian crows cannot
Researchers find suction-cup-shaped circular bristles give male diving beetles a mating advantage
African wild dogs adapt use of space to co-exist with lions and hyenas
Study shows oxytocin spray promotes social bonding behavior in dogs
Biologists identify unique way catfish locate prey
Animals incorporate a number of unique methods for detecting prey, but for the Japanese sea catfish, Plotosus japonicus, it is especially tricky given the dark murky waters where it resides.
Post ice-age extinctions of large mammals linked to humans, not climate change
Research shows bees might create cognitive maps
Activation of brain region can change a monkey's choice
Artificially stimulating a brain region believed to play a key role in learning, reward and motivation induced monkeys to change which of two images they choose to look at. In experiments reported online ...
Study shows fairy wrasses perceive and respond to their own deep red fluorescent coloration
From chaos to order: How ants optimize food search
Ants are capable of complex problem-solving strategies that could be widely applied as optimization techniques. An individual ant searching for food walks in random ways, biologists found. Yet the collective ...
Fruit flies show mark of intelligence in thinking before they act
Fruit flies 'think' before they act, a study by researchers from the University of Oxford's Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour suggests. The neuroscientists showed that fruit flies take longer to make ...