#animal-behavior

#animal-behavior

It's both terrifying and fascinating. The school's response to the buzzard's visits has transformed what could have been a detrimental experience into a valuable learning moment.

A recent study analyzed handedness in 172 animal species, revealing that left-handedness is common across the animal kingdom, challenging traditional misconceptions about handedness being unique to humans.

Numerical competence is the ability to represent, discriminate, and process numerical quantity information. Animals benefit from numerical competence in many aspects of their lives.

The perplexing baby-snatchings, reported in the journal Current Biology, suggest that humans aren't the only intelligent species with youngsters that pursue apparently pointless activities that can be destructive to other creatures.

"All of their feeding behavior is so weird," says Steven Whitfield, the director of terrestrial and wetlands conservation at the Audubon Nature Institute in New Orleans, La.

The researchers say their study offers fresh insights into such behaviour in chimpanzees, revealing they too apply chewed plant material to their wounds.

"This time of year is when you have all the female raccoons that will be out there in the day foraging for food sometimes. They can be extremely aggressive."

The behavioral study involved equal numbers of male and female mice, revealing no significant differences in cued reaching behavior between sexes, led by careful training protocols.

"She ran straight up to me - I just burst into tears," Gardner said in a statement released on Wednesday.

Animals often act independently when group behavior is not in their best interest. This challenges the notion that instinct always governs behavior.

Over many generations - through deliberate selection, crossing and interbreeding - humans 'created' the domesticated creatures we have and use today.

"Obviously, bringing the smallest dog in the world with the tallest dog in the world, there was a little bit of anxiety. But I think he was very gentle [and] very, very kind [to Pearl], as best as he could be."

Researchers at the Smithsonian Institute studied fringe-lipped bats and discovered that these creatures learn to identify the calls of edible frogs versus toxic ones over time.

Bucks are prone to aggressive behavior when approached, especially during their mating season in late fall, when they fight for mating rights using their large antlers.

It was things like bouncing on their legs, it was simultaneously crushing their claw and their body into the sand, which were far more complex than we expected.

"Everyone has a theory about panda libido, but surely we can all agree humans are most of the problem. If we'd left their habitat alone, their sex lives would be private panda business."

In 1996, Kat Albrecht realized the need for lost-pet detection when her own dog escaped, prompting her to train dogs for this purpose.

It surprised me more than it hurt. And even though it didn't really hurt that much, it was enough to make me rethink taking her out and cuddling.