Amazing Animals
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Wasps learned how to use sophisticated antibiotics millions of years before the invention of penicillin, research has shown.
In a study in the Proceedings of the Royal Society, researchers adjusted animals' sounds for body size and metabolic rate, and found a surprising similarity of normalized calls throughout the animal kingdom.
Dolphins are so intelligent they should be given the same status as humans, scientists are recommending.
It's arrogant to think we're the only animals who mourn.
There is no doubt that many animals experience rich and deep emotions. It's not a matter of if emotions have evolved in animals but why they have evolved as they have. We must never forget that our emotions are the gifts of our ancestors, our animal kin. We have feelings and so do other animals.
There is no doubt that many animals experience rich and deep emotions. It's not a matter of if emotions have evolved in animals but why they have evolved as they have. We must never forget that our emotions are the gifts of our ancestors, our animal kin. We have feelings and so do other animals.
Ravens are some of the cleverest animals to exist in the wild. Watch this amazing and complicated test of their intelligence here. Clip taken from BBC animal show Clever Critters, narrated by comedienne Dawn French.
Without having been trained to do so, chimps in a Japanese study helped their fellow apes access elusive juice. The researchers say this adds to evidence that chimps are more similar to humans than previously thought.
Japanese researchers claim that chimpanzees are capable of human-like altruism.
Japanese researchers claim that chimpanzees are capable of human-like altruism.
J. David Smith, Ph.D., a comparative psychologist at the University at Buffalo who has conducted extensive studies in animal cognition, says there is growing evidence that animals share functional parallels with human conscious metacognition - that is, they may share humans' ability to reflect upon, monitor or regulate their states of mind.
Smith makes this conclusion in an article published the September issue of the journal Trends in Cognitive Science (Volume 13, Issue 9). He reviews this new and rapidly developing area of comparative inquiry, describing its milestones and its prospects for continued progress.
Smith makes this conclusion in an article published the September issue of the journal Trends in Cognitive Science (Volume 13, Issue 9). He reviews this new and rapidly developing area of comparative inquiry, describing its milestones and its prospects for continued progress.
Chimp babies are better behaved than their human cousins (and they smile more too)
They are thought of as the mischief-makers of the animal kingdom. But baby chimps are less of a handful than their human cousins.
If a young chimp is in tears, it is quickly calmed by a cuddle, research shows.
They are thought of as the mischief-makers of the animal kingdom. But baby chimps are less of a handful than their human cousins.
If a young chimp is in tears, it is quickly calmed by a cuddle, research shows.
Those of you who still need convincing that fish are smarter than a 5-year-old should check out New York Times. Molecular biologist and geneticist Sean B. Carroll writes about recent studies indicating that fish who inhabit coral reefs can learn to differentiate between targets marked with different designs and colors in order to obtain food. Other studies of coral-reef fish in their natural habitat show that fish are more drawn to "dummies" that closely resemble beneficial "cleaner fish" than to dummies with similar coloring but different markings.
A colony of bees brought in to produce honey for a city centre department store are using bridges to fly from the shop to find pollen crops.
The evidence is mounting that culture isn't something unique to us humans: Orangutans in Borneo have developed and passed along a way to make a useful, improvised instrument, researchers report.
