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How Goldfish Make Alcohol

11/08/2017

Scientists reveal how goldfish make alcohol to survive without oxygen ...

Beats Botox! Dog Walking Keeps You Younger Longer

27/07/2017

Dog walking could be key to ensuring activity in later life ...

Bite Me, Reptiles! Mammals Had Venom First

16/02/2017

A kiss of death -- mammals were the first animals to produce venom ...

No Walls in Nature: Range Expansion in the Animal World

01/02/2017

Challenging traditional theories on organisms' 'range expansion'...

Chicken – Finger Lickin’ Caring and Intelligent

04/01/2017

Review looks at studies on chicken intelligence, social development and emotions...

That Time You Went Away? Your Dogs Remember

28/11/2016

Your dogs are paying attention and they'll remember...

Born Slippy: The Freaky Chemistry of the Pacific Spiny Dogfish Shark

29/10/2016

How sharks recycle toxic ammonia to keep their skin moist ...

Honey, Quit Harshing My Buzz: Bumblebees Hit the Woozy Gravy

26/09/2016

When Bees Are Buzzed, Their Behavior Changes...

Could Goats be Your Next Pet? Intelligent, Loyal (and Delicious)

08/07/2016

Empathy and Need - Could goats become man's best friend? ...

dogs by Mylène Quervel-ChaumetteVetmeduni Vienna 620

Caring Canines. Do Dogs Do Christmas Too?

23/12/2015

Dogs truly behave prosocially toward other dogs....

Not So Dumb-o. Leafblower Elephants Get the Goodies

08/11/2015

Elephants may use trunks like 'leaf blowers' to obtain inaccessible food ...

The Slaver and the Snarl. Dog Bites (and avoiding them)

14/08/2015

There was a common tendency for victims to blame themselves for the attack, rather than the animal...

Crocodiles Like To Play Too

14/02/2015

Research shows that crocodilians engage in all three main types of play distinguished by behavior specialists...

tiger beetle by freedigitalphotos.net and sippakorn

All Speed, No Control. Daft Beetles

09/11/2014

To take the sprinting gold from the tiger beetle, a person would have to hit 480 miles per hour....

Dogs learn human behaviour

18/07/2013

dogs are able to reproduce familiar actions and novel actions after different delays ̶ familiar actions after intervals as long as ten minutes; novel tasks after a delay of one minute...

Chimps Cash Their Chance Chips

23/06/2013

Chimpanzees, bonobos exhibit emotional responses to outcomes of decision-making. Chimps Cash ? It's bananas of course....

Animal Cognition

11/06/2013

Animal Cognition: According to standard theory, the best response to current circumstances should be unaffected by what has happened in the past...

Monkey math

31/05/2013

Opposing thumbs, expressive faces, complex social systems: it's hard to miss the similarities between apes, humans and monkey maths. ...

Extreme hearing animal

19/05/2013

Researchers discover world's most extreme hearing animal...

Following Whalesong

10/05/2013

Male humpback whales sing complex whalesong in tropical waters during the winter breeding season...

Extraverted gorillas enjoy longer lives

19/12/2012

Gorillas with an extravert personality live longer than their more introverted peers, a study suggests....

Drunken Tweets Not Confined to Humans

05/11/2012

'all the dead birds had become intoxicated on fermented berries, and that some of the injuries they had sustained were the result of mid-air collisions'. Drunken Birds....

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