A new series of scientific experiments demonstrate that orangutans can literally copy new information from each other. They also learn new things and abilities just by watching how other member of their species do them, which is something that has not been confirmed in other species before. Humans are good at doing t... |
7 February 2011
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Researchers from the United States recently managed to determine that our ability to form habits is in fact innate, and that this trait can be further refined and fine-tune by life experiences. The group, which is based at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) McGovern Institute for Brain Research, explain... |
26 October 2010
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Many bird species spend their summers and winters in different places on the planet. There are many reasons for this type of behavior, but the most common is related to temperature variations. Birds remain for instance in temperate areas during the summer, but them fly to warmer areas when winter sets in. In a recent... |
29 July 2010
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For many years, biologists have believed that humans were the only species to show compassion and the ability to console others. Over time, however, additional in-depth studies of the animal kingdom have revealed that this was not the case. Primates such as chimpanzees and bonobos, as well as whales and dolphins, are... |
18 May 2010
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A group of researchers publishes the conclusions of a new study on bonobos (pan paniscus), that shows the primates tend to use their heads to prevent others from performing something bad. Video evidence captures the bonobos as they shake their heads as to say “no,” when they see others attempting to perfo... |
7 May 2010
09:57 GMT |
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A series of recent scientific experiments has demonstrated that octopuses are not big fans of standard television. The research group behind the investigation, which was trying to determine how the sophisticated animals react to moving images, determined that the cephalopods were, however, likely to respond to high-d... |
18 March 2010
10:49 GMT |
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A species of aphids has developed a very strange way of staying alive – workers tending to the needs of the colony often have to plug holes into the leaves of the plant they live in, and they do so by excreting a sticky fluid, kind of like superglue, which they use to plug the holes. Unfortunately, a large numb... |
25 February 2009
09:31 GMT |
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