Animals

  1. Animals

    Ants do real estate the simple way

    Tracking ants with anti-shoplifter RFID tags has inspired a new, simplified view of how a colony finds a home

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  2. Plants

    Yo, aphid, I’m red and I’m bad

    Apple trees support the idea that red fall colors are a warning signal to insects.

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  3. Life

    Early land arthropods sported shells

    Ancient ocean-dwelling arthropods may have worn shells to enable their transition to land.

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  4. Animals

    Oh, he’s such a lab bird

    Bold flycatchers may be more likely than shy birds to get trapped for lab studies.

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  5. Life

    Male chimps exchange meat for sex

    A long-term study of chimps living in western Africa indicates that males hunt down monkeys not only to eat their meat, but also to exchange the meat for sex with female chimps.

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  6. Animals

    Sonar causes rock-concert effect in dolphins

    Test of recorded sonar causes temporary hearing impairment in dolphins.

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  7. Animals

    Chimps ambidextrous when digging wells

    A survey of water-collection holes dug on the banks of an African river by wild chimpanzees indicates that, unlike people, these apes don’t have a preference for using either the right or left hand on manual tasks.

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  8. Animals

    It’s not just his croak

    Male tree frogs with redder vocal sacs prove more popular with females, even at night.

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  9. Animals

    Dogs show a fetching communication savvy

    In a sign of understanding that one object can be used to represent another, border collies fetch toys after being shown replicas or, in some cases, photos of those toys.

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  10. Animals

    Urban Ants of North America and Europe: Identification, Biology and Management by John Klotz, Michael Rust, Reiner Pospischil and Laurel Hansen

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  11. Animals

    Public tantrums defeat monkey moms too

    Rhesus macaque moms are more likely to give in to screaming babies when bystanders are watching and reacting

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  12. Animals

    Climate change discourages second families

    Birds out of sync with local baby food supply of caterpillars aren’t nesting a second time.

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