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These dogs eavesdrop on their owners to learn new words

Next, the entire experiment was repeated with one key variation: This time, during the training protocol, rather than addressing the […]

Illustration of the 10 most common recorded dance movements. Credit: Lubke et al., 2025, PLOS One/CC-BY 4.0 They also analyzed […]

Let’s get small The team observed 67 breeding pairs of wild clownfish—briefly caught and photographed for distinctive markings and measured […]

Skip to content Most Metal Caterpillar Ever The caterpillars even tailor the body parts, nibbling away at excess material to […]

Is there anything more human than gathering in groups to share food and partake in a fermented beverage or two […]

Skip to content Voice breaks in Latin American monkey calls resemble human yodeling, but over a much wider frequency range. […]

Crafty cuttlefish employ several different camouflaging displays while hunting their prey, according to a new paper published in the journal […]

There have been many studies on the capability of non-human animals to mimic transitive actions—actions that have a purpose. Hardly […]

According to Amazonian folklore, the area’s male river dolphins are shapeshifters (encantade), transforming at night into handsome young men who […]

Those results supported the initial hypothesis that chimps tended to urinate in sync rather than randomly. Further analysis showed that […]