These Squirrels Are Hunting and Eating Meat and Scientists Only Just Noticed
California ground squirrels surprise scientists with their newly discovered taste for mammalian flesh.
Tag: animal behavior
This Self-Assembling Living Worm Tower Might Be the Most Bizarre Escape Machine
The worm tower behaves like a superorganism.
Shy albatrosses are more likely to get divorced
Climate change also has a part to play.
We haven’t been listening to female frog calls because the males just won’t shut up
Only 1.4% of frog species have documented female calls — scientists are listening closer now
Flamingos Create Underwater Tornadoes to Suck Up Their Prey
Pink birds spin water tornados to trap prey like underwater spiderwebs
Wild Chimpanzees Use Medicine To Treat Each Other’s Wounds
Chimpanzees don’t just treat their own injuries, but care for others, too.
Sharks Aren’t Silent After All. This One Clicks Like a Castanet
This is the first evidence of sound production in a shark.
Venomous love: These male octopuses inject venom into females so they can escape being eaten
In the perilous world of cephalopod romance, male blue-lined octopuses have evolved a shocking strategy to survive mating.
Chimps and bonobos rub their genitals to maintain peace
New research reveals that both bonobos and chimpanzees use sexual behavior to ease social tension
Do dogs have a favorite color? New study suggests it might be yellow
A dog might skip a better meal just to eat from a bowl in his favorite color — yellow.
Dutch scientists left a hamster wheel outside. Then, all the animals started playing with it
It seems that animals simply love to play.
Some dolphins pee up into the air and we’ve only now learned this
Scientists believe this could be a form of social bonding — or even an unusual way of smelling through touch.
Alpha Male Baboons Have High Stress and Shorter Lives — And It’s All for Love
Life is tough as an alpha male — if you're a baboon.
When One Chimp Pees, Others Follow: What Contagious Urination May Reveal About Our Closest Relatives
Even bathroom habits can reveal the social lives of our closest relatives.
Adorabile Video: Wolf Puppy gets the Hiccups
Hiccups aren't just a human quirk—they're a shared trait among mammals like dogs and wolves.
These Cockatoos Prepare Their Food by Dunking it Into Water
Just like some of us enjoy rusk dipped in coffee or tea, intelligent cockatoos delight in eating rusk dipped in ...
More than 10 million fish devoured in just a few hours. It’s the world’s largest predation event
Sonic imaging revealed millions of fish killed in epic feeding frenzy.
Elephants Use Water Hoses with Impressive Skill —and Even Sabotage Each Other
Elephants seem to not only know how to use the hose, but also how to intentionally interfere with others using ...
The Surprising Sleep of Sperm Whales: Vertical Naps in the Ocean Deep
If you think it's tough to sleep on land, try sleeping in the sea.
Alcohol consumption in the natural world is way more common than you thought
Ethanol is more than a human invention. New research reveals how animals across ecosystems encounter and adapt to ethanol.
A Wild Theory Suggests Kissing Started as Ape Grooming — and the Science Is Fascinating
Could kissing be a relic from our ancestors' grooming practices? A new study explores the origins.
Elephants remember their human keepers after more than a decade
They say an elephant never forgets, and according to this new study, that's not far from the truth.
Octopuses hunt with fish and punch them when they don’t contribute
Octopuses are getting more and more interesting with each new study.
Oh, Great! Scientists Discover Mosquitoes Use Infrared Vision to Hunt Humans
It turns out mosquitoes have even more ways to hunt us down.
European female frogs fake their own death to avoid mating with aggressive males
These amphibian ladies will resort to extreme tactics if that means avoiding pestering males.
I’m sorry you have to hear this: some leeches jump. They coil their bodies like cobras
Videos show that leeches can jump in pursuit of blood, ending an age-long debate among biologists.
SuperAnimal: An AI model that anyone can use to understand animal behavior
Animals can't talk or express their feelings but an AI can help us understand their behavior.
Young male dolphins role-play and practice for fatherhood years before they’re old enough to mate
Who knew young dolphins like to play doctor and nurse.
Tidy Welsh Mouse caught on tape cleaning man’s shed every night
Mice are curious creatures, and we might have underestimated their curiosity.
No brain, no problem. Brittle stars can still learn through experience
Brittle star behaviour is more complex than we thought.
Why cats purr — and why there’s more to purring than you think
Scientists are still learning new things about why your furry pet purrs but cats are confusing them with their adorable ...
Wildlife is shifting activity to nighttime because they don’t want to run into humans
Can't even blame them, I stay awake till 4 am for the same reason.
How crazy ants carry dinner 100 times their size: coordination and individual leadership
Different ant species employ various tactics to forage food and keep the colony in tip top shape. Most often scouts ...
Promiscuous female mice breed sexier male offspring. Research may help conservation efforts
University of Utah researchers found that female mice that live in a competitive social environment and choose to mate casually ...
Reading a dog’s mood by studying its tail wag
Any dog lover will tell you if you see a dog wagging its tail it's a sign that the dog ...
