ethology

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2024-11-11 @ 17.51.05 ∈ In English

(From January)

Magpies swoop bald men more often, eight-year-old's viral survey finds
The field in this case was the Blue Mountains Grammar School – Mr Swoopsalot's territory. "I watched the people he swooped and I recorded it," Emma said. "Then I got everything I recorded and I figured out that they [the people Mr Swoopsalot swooped] were male, they were tall, and that they had thin or receding hair."
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2024-09-26 @ 19.58.30 ∈ In English

Octopuses recorded hunting with fish — and punching those that don’t cooperate
The research […] even suggests that the famously intelligent animals organized the hunting groups’ decisions, including what they should prey upon. [The researchers witnessed the cephalopod species] punching companion fish, apparently to keep them on task and contributing to the collective effort.
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2024-05-26 @ 19.02.02 ∈ In English

Crows Can Actually Count Out Loud, Amazing New Study Shows
While other animals such as honeybees have shown an ability to understand numbers, this specific manifestation of numeric literacy has not yet been observed in any other non-human species.
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2024-05-04 @ 10.24.23 ∈ Suomeksi

Kimalaiset rakentavat legopalikoilla tiedettä ja tunnistavat tiimityön arvon
”Tulokset viittaavat siihen, että kimalaisilla on kyky tunnistaa ja reagoida kumppaninsa läsnäoloon ja liikkeisiin, mikä on hämmästyttävä osoitus niiden sosiaalisesta älykkyydestä”, tutkimusta johtanut eläinekologian dosentti Olli Loukola kertoo.
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2024-03-25 @ 17.16.03 ∈ In English

Wild bird gestures ‘after you’: Japanese tit uses wing movements for gestural communication
By analyzing over 320 nest visitations in detail, the researchers saw that the wing-fluttering display prompted the mate who was being fluttered at to enter the nest box first, while the one who fluttered entered second, determining the order of nest entry and mirroring the "after you" gesture observed in human communication.
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2023-12-14 @ 20.39.22 ∈ In English

New study reveals characteristics that are shared among a group of uniquely gifted dogs
Science now has documented that some rare dogs are even more special. They have a talent for learning hundreds of names of dog toys. Due to the extreme rarity of this phenomenon, until recently, very little was known about these dogs, as most of the studies that documented this ability included only a small sample of one or two dogs.
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2023-11-15 @ 16.26.15 ∈ Suomeksi

Villi varis liittyi koirien tottelevaisuuskurssille – osaa nyt jo kolme temppua
Mikkeliläinen eläintenkouluttaja Sanna Kankainen huomasi viime keväänä, että koirien tottelevaisuuskoulutusta seurasi kiinnostunut varis. Varis ei myöskään ollut niin arka kuin normaalisti villit linnut ovat. Niinpä Kankainen päätti kokeilla, oppiiko lintu temppuja. Ja sehän oppi.
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2023-07-07 @ 19.20.07 ∈ In English

Stressed rattlesnakes found to calm down in the company of a nearby ‘friend’
In highly social animals, such as mammals and birds, this phenomenon is well studied. Now, researchers have examined social buffering in rattlesnakes and found that the presence of a second snake significantly reduced rattlesnakes' change in heart rates after they experienced disturbance. It is the first evidence of social buffering in reptiles.
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2023-06-30 @ 13.22.42 ∈ In English

Artificial neural network study explains why biting flies are attracted to blue objects
[The ANN, trained to process visual information in a way similar to that of the fly brain, had] trouble telling the difference between blue objects and animals. This suggested that an inability to distinguish between animals and blue objects is the reason for the attraction to blue objects by flies.