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Mar 27, 2020
Study tracking 27 previously unfamiliar captive vampire bats for 15 months finds compelling evidence that blood-sucking mammals selectively escalate low-cost grooming before developing higher-cost food-sharing relationships
animal behavior
animal friendships
common vampire bat
emotions
raising the stakes
sanguivores
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weirdest
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world's weirdest
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Feb 28, 2020
Your dog's ice-cold nose may be a sensor for detecting heat at distance, new study shows. The rhinarium —the cold, wet, bare tip of a dog’s snout— is capable of sensing weak thermal radiation. This ability would conceivably help the carnivore to detect warm-blooded prey.
animal behavior
biology
dog noses
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evolution
gizmodo
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science
Feb 11, 2020
Why this coyote and badger 'friendship' has excited scientists
american badgers
animal behavior
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california
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urban wildlife
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Dec 10, 2019
New study results suggest that rats exchange information about danger in both directions; how the observer reacts to the other rat's distress also influences how the rat receiving negative stimulus responds to the danger.
animal behavior
animal sociality
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emotions
fear
prosocial behavior
rats
rodents
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Oct 05, 2019
In a prosocial choice task(using a touch screen to give food to a pack-member), wolves acted prosocially to in-group partners; providing significantly more food to a pack-member compared to a control where the partner had no access to the food. Dogs did not.
animal behavior
animal sexual behavior
dogs
domestic animals
motivation
pets and companion animals
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wolves
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Oct 05, 2019
Pigs recorded using tools for the first time
animal behavior
animal intelligence
camera traps
endangered species
jardin des plantes
pig intelligence
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visayan warty pigs
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Jul 31, 2019
Dolphin mom adopts whale calf, the first known case of a wild bottlenose mom adopting a calf of another species, as reported in a new study. The orphaned calf even learned to act like a bottlenose dolphin, gaining acceptance into the community.
adoption
animal behavior
animal moms
common bottlenose dolphin
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melon-headed whales
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Jul 26, 2019
Poison dart frogs provide the first evidence that amphibians form a mental map of their environment as birds and mammals have been shown to do, shedding light on the poorly understood brains of frogs
animal behavior
animal cognition
animal navigation
costa rica
frogs
green and black poison frog
homing pigeons
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