Crows: Not your typical bird brain
When people think of intelligent animals, chimpanzees and dolphins come to mind. Widely regarded as nothing more than a pest, the crow is far more intelligent than it lets on. Tool usage is one of the hallmarks of animal intelligence. While…
Satin bowerbirds: the obsessive-compulsive bachelors of the animal kingdom
Think of bachelor pads, and one pictures plasma-screen TVs, plush sofa beds, and gaming consoles. But humans aren’t the only species with a penchant for luxury housing; male satin bowerbirds skillfully construct personal ‘bachelor pads’, known as bowers, to impress…
CHEATING ON PARTNER- JUSTIFIED!
How temptations of having a better mate outside their ‘bond’ pushes the Gouldian finches (Erythrura gouldiae) to cheat on their mate not just once or twice, maybe even multiple times. Figure 1: Photo showing a male (red) and female (black)…
Yummy Mummy
No, they are not the animal equivalent of Yummy Mummies like Victoria Beckham and the soon- to- be one– Kate Middleton, but rather they are LITERALLY yummy mummies to their babies. Yes, matriphagy is the consumption of…
Till Death Do Us Part … … Or Maybe Not
Ever thought of what would lead to a union beyond death? Love? Maybe, but in the case of the deep-sea anglerfish (Photocorynus spiniceps), “practicality” is probably a better reason. Scientists who first discovered the deep-sea anglerfish were puzzled by the…
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