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Feb 20, 2020

By watching videos of each other eating, blue tits and great tits can learn to avoid foods that taste disgusting and are potentially toxic. Blue tits learned best by watching their own kind, but great tits learned equally well from observing either species.

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Dec 24, 2019

Chimpanzees seen clapping, tapping and swaying along to piano rhythms, spontaneously without training or reward, in a new study in PNAS, suggesting that the urge to dance has a prehuman origin, reaching at least as far back as the primate from which humans and chimps descended around 6m years ago.

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Aug 08, 2019

Staring down seagulls can stop them stealing your chips, suggests a new study. Seagulls are sensitive to human gaze and change behaviour when being watched, suggesting that they have theory of mind, the capacity to infer the mental states of others, or associate being watched with being chased away.

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Jul 17, 2019

Great apes are more sociable after watching movies together, finds a new study with chimpanzees and bonobos, suggesting that the evolutionary roots of bonding through shared activity may be deeper than was previously thought.

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Jun 12, 2019

Scientists at the University of Burgundy in Dijon believe they are the first to reveal the emotional attachments that fish form with their partners. Using a cognitive test, they found that female cichlids who lost their mates took a gloomier view of the world and were measurably more pessimistic.

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Jun 06, 2019

Dogs mirror stress levels of owners, researchers find. Scientists find higher cortisol levels in owners matched by raised levels in canine companions

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May 28, 2019

Monkeys in Senegal have learned to adapt to drones flying over their habitat. They use a similar call to when they spot an eagle to alert others.

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May 21, 2019

High-ranking bonobo moms lead sons to groups of females and keep guard while they mate. They are so keen for their sons to father children that they usher them in front of promising partners, shield them from violent competitors and chase other males away by charging them while their sons are mating

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Apr 04, 2019

Cats can recognise their own names, say scientists.

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