A dog’s heart rate is likely to rise in tandem with its owner’s heart rate in a stressful situation – even in the absence of verbal communication.
- Lecturer in Animal Behaviour and Welfare, Queen's University Belfast
Female piglets with more play fighting experience did better in adult contests – but for males the opposite was true.
The battles seen in a recent viral video and the BBC’s Planet Earth II documentary are just a glimpse of the contests that take place throughout the animal kingdom.
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