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Hummingbird. Pixabay

Sipping at the Bar: Hummingbirds Consume Alcohol in Nectar

Categories Life & Non-humans

A smiling primate. Credit Pixabay

Origins and advantages of, er, self love

Categories Brain & Behavior, Life & Non-humans

Two gorillas

Gorilla Resilience Unleashed: How Early Adversity Can’t Bring Them Down

Categories Brain & Behavior, Life & Non-humans, Social Sciences

Elephant seals asleep on land

Elephant seals drift off to sleep while diving far below the ocean surface

Categories Brain & Behavior, Life & Non-humans

Animals' reactions to respective excrements monitored by research team. Top left: Japanese macaques/human-like. Top right: Adélie penguin/white-splash (parasites, pathogens). Bottom left: Red-eared slider/black-pellet. Bottom right: Slow loris/macaque-like but smaller.

Survival is a disgusting matter

Categories Brain & Behavior, Life & Non-humans

Freshwater turtle basking at night. Image captured for study into nocturnal basking habits.

Freshwater turtles found basking in the moonlight

Categories Life & Non-humans

Professor Yun Zhang (far right) and her team — Taihong Wu (left) and Minghai Ge — discovered that hermaphrodite worms infected by a pathogen became more interested in mating with males, increasing their genetic diversity. Kris Snibbe/Harvard Staff Photographer

How does infection change social behavior?

Categories Brain & Behavior, Health

A bee above a purple flower

Making Beelines

Categories Bloggers

Woodcock tail feathers

The brightest white feathers ever measured

Categories Life & Non-humans, Physics & Mathematics

Cat looking thoughtful

How consciousness in animals can be researched

Categories Brain & Behavior, Life & Non-humans

Octopuses are mollusks, a large evolutionary group to which slugs and snails also belong. Their complex brains, and those of other closely-related cephalopods, like squid and cuttlefish, have evolved separately from vertebrates, and so octopuses are often referred to as alien-like. Here, a day octopus (Octopus cyanea) poses with a Shisa, a creature from Okinawan folklore.

Scientists record first-ever brain waves from freely moving octopuses

Categories Brain & Behavior, Life & Non-humans, Technology

A closeup of a colorful gecko

Tasting Geckos

Categories Bloggers

The researchers of the Department of Ethology at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, investigated whether young puppies, kittens and wolf pups have different tendencies to observe and imitate what a person did, without any pre-training and food reward.

Dog puppies spontaneously match human actions, while kittens, wolf pups not so much

Categories Life & Non-humans

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