Animals

  1. Animals

    Hey, that’s me!

    A test with a jumbo-size mirror suggests that Asian elephants may be among the few species that can recognize their own images.

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  2. Animals

    Ivory-billed hopes flit to Florida

    There's no photo, but a team of ornithologists says that its sightings suggest that a few ivory-billed woodpeckers still live along the Choctawhatchee River in Florida.

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  3. Animals

    Why Play Dead?

    Common wisdom dictates that playing dead discourages predators, but researchers are now thinking harder about how, or whether, that strategy really works.

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  4. Animals

    Tropical diversity came with time

    Species in richly diverse tropics don't evolve faster than do species in temperate zones.

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  5. Animals

    Courting Costs: Male prairie dogs seem too busy mating to dodge predators

    Male prairie dogs get so distracted during mating season that predators find them easy pickings.

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  6. Animals

    Krill kick up a storm of ocean mixing

    Scientists have measured living creatures' contribution to the stirring of ocean water, and they found that little kicking krill legs do a lot.

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  7. Animals

    Silky feet

    Zebra tarantulas can secrete silk from their feet, a feat that may help them better adhere to surfaces.

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  8. Animals

    Scent Stalking: Parasitic vine grows toward tomato odor

    A wiry orange vine finds plants to raid for nutrients by growing toward their smell. With video.

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  9. Animals

    Mother deer can’t ID their fawns by call

    Fawns can distinguish their mom's voice from another deer's, but a mom can't pick out her fawn's call.

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  10. Animals

    Crickets on Mute: Hush falls as killer fly stalks singers

    Within just 5 years, singing has nearly died out among a population of cricket on a Hawaiian island.

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  11. Animals

    Sexually Deceptive Chemistry: Beetle larvae fake the scent of female bees

    Trick chemistry lets a bunch of writhing caterpillars attract a male bee that they then use as a flying taxi on their way to find food.

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  12. Animals

    Family Tree: An arboreal genome is sequenced

    Researchers have sequenced the genome of a tree for the first time.

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