#animal-behavior

#animal-behavior

Neanderthals rendered fat from bones 125,000 years ago, 100,000 years earlier than modern humans, based on evidence from thousands of bone fragments in Germany.

"Penguins are curious. When there are people, they're going to look," said P. Dee Boersma, a conservation biologist and professor at the University of Washington.

The chances for survival of double-headed snakes, such as Angel and Zeke, are slimmer than their single-headed counterparts, as the odds against polycephaly are approximately 1 in 100,000.

Dogs see the world in patterns. That's how we're able to train them, said Langan, who advises clients who lost their homes to establish new routines for their pets.

Female baboons who enjoyed stronger relationships with fathers in their early years lived longer than those with weaker paternal bonds.

It's both terrifying and fascinating. The school's response to the buzzard's visits has transformed what could have been a detrimental experience into a valuable learning moment.

"It's usually assumed that growth is relatively one way, so it's favorable to be a bit bigger. And we've not really seen before that they actually have this capacity or ability to shrink."

A recent study analyzed handedness in 172 animal species, revealing that left-handedness is common across the animal kingdom, challenging traditional misconceptions about handedness being unique to humans.

Numerical competence is the ability to represent, discriminate, and process numerical quantity information. Animals benefit from numerical competence in many aspects of their lives.

The perplexing baby-snatchings, reported in the journal Current Biology, suggest that humans aren't the only intelligent species with youngsters that pursue apparently pointless activities that can be destructive to other creatures.

"While thoughts of doomsday prepping dogs for when we're no longer around may be unsettling, there are some upsides to thinking about how dogs will do without us while we're still here."

"All of their feeding behavior is so weird," says Steven Whitfield, the director of terrestrial and wetlands conservation at the Audubon Nature Institute in New Orleans, La.

"This time of year is when you have all the female raccoons that will be out there in the day foraging for food sometimes. They can be extremely aggressive."

The behavioral study involved equal numbers of male and female mice, revealing no significant differences in cued reaching behavior between sexes, led by careful training protocols.

"She ran straight up to me - I just burst into tears," Gardner said in a statement released on Wednesday.

Animals often act independently when group behavior is not in their best interest. This challenges the notion that instinct always governs behavior.

Over many generations - through deliberate selection, crossing and interbreeding - humans 'created' the domesticated creatures we have and use today.

"Obviously, bringing the smallest dog in the world with the tallest dog in the world, there was a little bit of anxiety. But I think he was very gentle [and] very, very kind [to Pearl], as best as he could be."

Bucks are prone to aggressive behavior when approached, especially during their mating season in late fall, when they fight for mating rights using their large antlers.

It was things like bouncing on their legs, it was simultaneously crushing their claw and their body into the sand, which were far more complex than we expected.