ethology

The question of grief itself may hinge on what a mother does when she refuses to let go.

The collective memory of the tribe can be crucial to survival. For many animals, safety...

Ethological studies of animal sentience are critical because they focus on wild animals displaying flexibility and adapting to their ever-changing lives.

In a 2020 paper with cognitive scientist Antonio J. Osuna-Mascaró, philosopher Susana Monsó argued that two forms of anthropocentrism — the belief that human beings are superior to all others — undergird humans’ reluctance to acknowledge animals’ ability to understand death

Emotions are signalled among conspecifics but also to other species to facilitate ethologically meaningful responses towards external and internal cues. An unresolved question, however, is whether the universality of emotional recognition extends to vocalizations that lie outside a species’ natural auditory range. Here we asked whether humans perceive emotional content of frequency-shifted rat ul…

When an antenna of the house cricket (Acheta domesticus) is touched with a heated probe, something curious happens: the insect turns its attention to the burned spot, grooming it repeatedly, for far longer than it would after a harmless touch or no contact at all. The post Insects May Feel Pain, New Study Suggests appeared first on Sci.News: Breaking Science News .

New research shows that ants can update their sense of who is a nestmate versus who is not throughout adulthood.

Advances in decoding animal sounds might someday make animal translators a possibility.

A cow named Veronika has stunned scientists by using tools in a flexible and purposeful way. She chooses different ends of a brush depending on the part of her body and adjusts her movements accordingly. This level of tool use is incredibly rare and was previously seen mainly in primates. The finding hints that cows may be much smarter than we assume.

Honey bees don’t just perform their famous waggle dance to share directions, they actually adjust how well they dance depending on who’s watching. Researchers found that when fewer bees pay attention, the dancer becomes less precise as it moves around trying to attract an audience. This means the dance is not simply a fixed message about food location, but a flexible performance shaped by social …

Indonesian grear ape Rakus is first to be observed creating medicine from a plant and applying it to an open wound

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Basic cooperation skills appear to be shared by dogs and wolves, suggesting that this ability was present in a common ancestor and was not lost during domestication. A team of researchers have found that dogs and wolves are equally good at cooperating with partners to obtain a reward. When tested in same-species pairs, dogs and wolves proved equally successful and efficient at solving a given pro…

Frans de Waal calls his new book Mama’s Last Hug in reference to an emotional encounter between Mama, a 58-year-old chimpanzee, and Jan van Hooff, an 80-year-old biology professor. Mama is frail and near death when Van Hooff, who had overseen her care for decades, enters her cage at Burgers Zoo in the Netherlands. Mama smiles and Van Hooff bends toward her. She strokes his white hair and drapes o…

This July I attended the International Society for Human Ethology Summer Institute in Orono, ME. Besides meeting some extraordinary people (and having an amazing time!), I also discovered how important ethology is for evolution. At the heart of ethology is … Continue reading →

Renowned primatologist Jane Goodall breezed through Wellington late last week to promote a new book and give a very-well received public lecture at Wellington Zoo. The Science Media Centre’s Dacia Herbulock recorded the proceedings. [audio:https://www.sciencemediacentre.co.nz.php5-1.dfw1-1.websitetestlink.com/wp-content/upload/2008/10/jane-goodall-total.mp3]

Laugh and the whole world laughs with you. Yawn, and so will your dog. A recent study published in the journal Biology Letters found dogs yawn when humans do, suggesting that canines may have the capacity for empathy. In their experiment, researchers from the University of London yawned at 29 dogs. Seventy-two percent yawned back—a higher frequency than humans, who typically yawn back 45 to 60 pe…

Laugh and the whole world laughs with you. Yawn, and so will your dog. A recent study published in the journal Biology Letters found dogs yawn when humans do, suggesting that canines may have the capacity for empathy. In their experiment, researchers from the University of London yawned at 29 dogs. 72 percent yawned back—a higher frequency than humans, who typically mimic a yawn 45 to 60 percent …