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Category: Animal Behaviour
THE United States military funded research into using networks of 'spy crows' to locate soldiers who are missing in action, and extended the work to see if the birds might be useful in helping them to find Osama bin...
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Category: Animal Behaviour
Box jellyfish navigate using terrestrial visual cues, with highly speclialized eyes that always point up towards the water surface
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Category: Animal Behaviour
SNAKES have a unique sensory system for detecting infrared radiation, with which they can visualize temperature changes within their immediate environment. Using this special sense, they can image the body heat radiating from warm-blooded animals nearby. This enables them to...
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Category: Animal Behaviour
A group of American researchers reports that circadian and social cues directly affect electrical field strength in a species of electric fish by regulating sodium channel trafficking in cells of the electrical organ.
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Category: Animal Behaviour
The star-nosed mole's amazing fleshy appendages make it the fastest forager in the animal kingdom and enable it to sniff out food underwater
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Category: Animal Behaviour
British researchers capture more film footage of crows and rooks doing incredibly clever things
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Category: Animal Behaviour
A team of biologists has used high-speed infrared cameras and ultrasonic microphones to demonstrate that tiger moths evade capture by emitting ultrasound clicks to jam bats' biosonar
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Category: Animal Behaviour
A new study shows that the songs of isolated zebra finches evolve over multiple generations to resemble those of birds in natural colonies.
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Category: Palaeontology
Bones have been big news recently, following the publication of two papers which document remarkable fossil finds. First, a group of palaeontologists led by Phil Gingerich of the University of Michigan described Maiacetus inuus, a primitive whale which lived in...
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Category: Animal Behaviour
The familiar buzzing sound made by a mosquito may be irritating to us humans, but it is an important mating signal. The sound, produced by the beats of the insect's wings, has a characteristic frequency called the "flight tone"; when...
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