#animal-behavior

#animal-behavior

The clip shared on Instagram by zoologist and author Lucy Cooke and wildlife veterinarian Andrés Sáenz Bräutigam proves definitively that these adorable animals are just as gassy as any other mammal.

When a male spider follows the unique perfume left by female spiders, he risks his life, as they are larger and could easily overpower him.

A pod of killer whales disables the rudders of idling yachts in the Strait of Gibraltar, sinking three ships, highlighting animal behavior in retribution.

Hilarious footage filmed by Brea Walker shows a seagull marching to the meal deal section of a store and stealing a sandwich before being filmed outside pecking at the packaging.

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.

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.

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 traditional narrative equates cat-human interactions as a "lighter" version of the deeply bonded dog-human relationship, but recent research challenges this perspective.

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."