Animals

  1. Animals

    Sex, crickets and videotape

    Security cameras focused on insects in the wild are looking at whether lab science has gotten the singing, mating and fighting right.

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  2. Animals

    Diversified portfolio yields benefit for salmon stocks

    Local diversity keeps sockeye from going bust every few years, a study finds.

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  3. Life

    Artificial butterfly mixes high, low tech

    Model shows importance of wing veins and bobbing flight to keeping swallowtails aloft.

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  4. Animals

    Cads of the savanna

    Male topi antelopes lie about predators to keep the ladies nearby.

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  5. Animals

    Argonauts use shells as flotation devices

    The octopus relatives create their own buoyancy devices by gulping and hoarding air from the surface.

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  6. Animals

    Fight or flee, it’s in the pee

    Researchers get a better understanding of how mice smell a rat, or a cat, and maybe even a snake.

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  7. Animals

    Mirror, mirror on the wall, you’re the scariest fish of all

    That thing in the mirror may be more upsetting than a real fish.

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  8. Animals

    Aphids make their own bright colors

    The insects’ ancestors adapted fungal DNA for manufacturing vital compounds.

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  9. Animals

    Chimps may be aware of others’ deaths

    Reactions of chimps to dead companions and infants suggest a basic realization of what death entails.

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  10. Animals

    Male spiders have safe(r) sex with siblings

    In a cannibalistic species, brothers minimize risk when mating with their sisters.

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  11. Ecosystems

    Pigeons usually let best navigator take the lead

    One bird usually leads the flock, but sometimes another gets a turn at the helm.

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  12. Health & Medicine

    Cats attracted to ADHD drug, a feline poison

    Since 2004, drugs designed for use by people have been the leading source of poisonings among companion animals, according to the national Animal Poison Control Center in Urbana, Ill. And among cats, Adderall – a combination of mixed amphetamine salts used to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder – has quickly risen to become one of the most common and dangerous of these pharmaceutical threats.

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