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While more traditional defense methods like camouflage, venom and spines appear ineffective against large sharks and mammals, ...
Let’s pretend that we’re back in high school and our teacher gives us a quiz. Here’s the first question: Which animal uses tools, can imagine the perspective of others and ...
Rather than chasing grammar in animals, a more grounded approach asks what cognitive difference might explain the gap ...
Footage captures a pair of orcas nibbling each other's tongues in the Kvænangen fjords in northern Norway. Scientists think ...
Killer whales have been caught on video breaking off pieces of seaweed to rub and groom each other, scientists announced ...
Why do humans have language and other animals apparently don't? It's one of the most enduring questions in the study of mind and communication. Across all cultures, humans use richly expressive ...
Researchers from the Department of Ethology at ELTE Eötvös Loránd University conducted a comprehensive review of the literature in an attempt to answer this question.
Dog owners may think they understand what their pet is trying to say with facial expressions or a wag of their tail, but a professor of ethology - the science of animal behaviour - believes that ...
First and foremost, man is an animal—but he is neither the end product of evolution nor much more than a mediocre biological success. The body he inhabits is primitive, at least 50,000 years out ...
A ground squirrel with cheeks stuffed with nuts, seeds or grains, is a common sight. But a new study provides the first evidence that California ground squirrels also hunt, kill and eat voles. The ...
What role do dogs play in today's world? For many, they are more than just pets. New findings from the Department of Ethology ...