Browsing: Animal Behavior

There is growing evidence that animals grieve the death of a loved one, but we should be careful not to let prejudice cloud the topic, says…

James Blake/Falklands Marine Heritage Trust When my ginger rescue cat Marmalade crawls onto my lap and meows at me, I often really want to know what’s…

While two male rats are fighting, one will often run up to the female rat to distract the attacker. This is a decoy strategy that may…

A day of fun fishing for goatfish and octopusEduardo Sampaio and Simon Gingins Octopuses are more sophisticated than we thought: Though they’re generally solitary animals, they…

Some lizards can stay underwater for longer by exhaling and rebreathing air bubbles, something that has been suspected since the behaviour was first observed, but this…

Unlike humans, dogs may know by living, not by thinking.Shutterstock/Tom Wang Dog HappinessMark Rowlands (Granta Books) Do you spend most of your day looking at your…

Bluestreak Cleaner checking himself out in the mirrorOsaka Metropolitan University Before deciding whether to fight another fish, wrasse look at their own reflection in the mirror…

Eels escape from the gills of fishHasegawa et al./Current Biology It has been found that Japanese eels attempt to escape from the stomachs of fish that…

Marmoset mother and daughter, Bhumi and BelleDavid Omer Lab Marmosets use distinctive calls to other monkeys in their family group, similar to the way humans call…

The sea slugs work together to attack their prey, a sea anemone.Kate Otter The slow slaughter beneath the waves is surprisingly social: some sea slugs attack…