New research shows that displaying a pair of eyes on food packaging can be enough to stop some gulls pinching your food.
Articles on Animal behavioural patterns
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Rapidly changing temperatures and sensory environments are challenging the nervous systems of many species. Animals will be forced to evolve to survive.
Kneading is typical kitten behaviour but may be retained into adulthood because it can help communicate messages.
You wouldn’t run up and hug a stranger in the street – let’s not do it to dogs. Here’s how to keep kids safe and dogs happy during chance encounters.
Capturing cow urine could allow us to reduce the amount of damaging nitrate and nitrous oxide that ends up in the environment.
We need to understand what a swallow’s nest is really for – and it is not mainly for sleeping.
Here are ten common misconceptions about what dogs need and how they communicate with us. Plus, a gallery of reader and staff dog pictures!
Birds can usually sense when they are not feeling well and like many other creatures, seem to seek out-of-the-way places to be alone.
By understanding sleep across animals we can gain insights into improving the quality of human sleep. It can also help to bolster conservation management strategies for the animals in question.
Do human pheromones exist? Despite the products some would sell you, there’s no hard evidence yet.
From Roman classics to British tabloids, humans have long celebrated the curious and remarkable ability of birds to imitate the sounds of humans and other animals. A recent surge of research is revealing…
Humans and their primate cousins are well known for their intelligence and social abilities. You hear them called bird-brained, but birds have demonstrated a great deal of intelligence in many tasks. However…
There are many qualities that have been suggested that separate human beings from other living species. These include tool making, an ability to dream and especially the development of highly sophisticated…
Academics at the University of Alaska have discovered evidence for genetic change in pink salmon populations as a response…
What role have dogs played in human evolution? Woof … now there’s a question. Anthropologist Pat Shipman, in a recent issue of American Scientist, suggests dogs gave our human ancestors an advantage over…
In “The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson”, Mark Twain equated keeping a cat to domestic bliss: When there was room on the ledge outside of the pots and boxes for a cat, the cat was there – in sunny weather…
A new study of chimpanzees has documented a frequency of sharing previously unreported for animals, demonstrating that they…
Genetic variation persists through generations, rather than being bred out in an evolution towards a “perfect type”, shows…
While researchers have already known for a long time that dolphins associate in the equivalent of human “mum’s clubs”, the…
The efficiency of the Komodo Dragon bite is a combination of highly specialised serrated teeth and venom, say researchers…
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