Animals

  1. Animals

    Basking sharks head south for winter

    Satellite-tagging data suggest that basking sharks migrate south to the Caribbean in winter.

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  2. Life

    Birds bust a move to musical beats

    Parrots and possibly other vocal-mimicking animals can synchronize their movements to a musical beat, two new studies suggest.

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  3. Animals

    Caterpillars’ chirp could be scary

    Larvae of great peacock moths might signal that they’ll put up a fight.

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  4. Animals

    Swarm Savvy

    How bees, ants and other animals avoid dumb collective decisions

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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. Life

    Early land arthropods sported shells

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

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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. Animals

    Sonar causes rock-concert effect in dolphins

    Test of recorded sonar causes temporary hearing impairment in dolphins.

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  11. 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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  12. 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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