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Some Chimps Skip Food Tray If the Price Is Friendship
New research indicates that chimpanzees are less likely to steal food from individuals they consider friends, prioritizing social bonds over immediate rewards.
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Crows may make lightning-fast decisions, sometimes twice as fast as humans, study hints
New research suggests crows can process visual information and make decisions up to twice as fast as humans and monkeys.
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Rolling without wheels: How dwarf reedsnakes coordinate their bodies for high-speed escapes
Scientists have uncovered how secretive dwarf reed snakes perform acrobatic cartwheels to escape predators.
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Dogs Seem to Agree With Humans That 'Bouba' Is Round And 'Kiki' Is Spiky
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Dogs Can Pick Out Word Patterns in Speech, a Trick Once Thought Uniquely Human
New research reveals that dogs possess the ability to identify word patterns in speech, a linguistic skill previously believed to be uniquely human.
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Dogs use a surprising method to understand human language, new study suggests
New research suggests dogs process human speech using methods similar to those employed by human babies to understand language.
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Dog brains track consonant patterns in speech, a first outside humans
New research reveals that dogs decode human speech by tracking consonant patterns, a linguistic processing capability previously seen only in humans.
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Sniffer Dogs Make Mistakes When They're Hungry
Recent studies reveal that hunger significantly impacts the performance of scent-detection dogs, increasing false alarms.
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Humans Love Having Pets. Seems Like Some Other Primates Do, Too.
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Dolphins Use Seashells to Scoop Up Fish and Eat Them in Rare Hunting Behavior
Dolphins have been observed using seashells as tools to scoop up fish, a rare hunting behavior that may be passed from mother to calf.
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Dolphins on opposite sides of Australia, thousands of kilometres apart, appear to have independently learned to chase fish into empty seashells and tip the trapped meal into their mouths
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Dogs can tell if you’re scared or sad
New findings indicate that dogs possess a more sophisticated ability to perceive and understand human emotions than previously understood.
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We should smile at our dogs
New brain scan research suggests dogs can distinguish between a range of human emotions, including fear, anger, and sadness.
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Video: Dolphin Carries Dead Calf in What Experts Call Mourning
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Monkey friendships with dogs, deer and even pigs offer clues to the evolutionary origins of pet-keeping
Recent coverage explores how cross-species friendships between monkeys and other animals offer clues to the origins of pet-keeping.
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Scientists showed horses silent videos of wolves and found their hearts raced even when they showed no obvious fear, raising new questions for riders and handlers
New research reveals horses maintain a 'poker face' despite physiological stress when encountering predators, challenging traditional equine behavior assumptions.
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How naked mole-rat queens stop rivals reproducing
Scientific coverage reveals how naked mole-rat queens use a powerful odorous chemical signal to suppress subordinate reproduction.
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Bats can catch and eat birds mid-flight. A painter may have known that 400 years before scientists
A centuries-old artwork is drawing fresh scrutiny after experts connect its hidden details to a newly documented wildlife behavior.