#animal-behavior

#animal-behavior

"When I did this experiment, I hoped that I would win the Ig Nobel. It's my dream. Unbelievable. Just unbelievable," said Tomoki Kojima, whose team put tape on Japanese beef cows and then spray-painted them with white stripes. Kojima appeared on stage in stripes and was surrounded by his fellow researchers who harassed him with cardboard flies.

The narrative of wildlife documentaries often begins with sweeping shots of the African savannah, establishing a familiar, bittersweet cycle of life and death among species.

"I think more and more we are really understanding the extent to which social behavior influences animals' lives," says Adelaide Abraham, a PhD student at the University of Oxford and first author of the study. "It's hugely, hugely important."

The clip shared on Instagram by zoologist and author Lucy Cooke and wildlife veterinarian Andrés Sáenz Bräutigam proves definitively that these adorable animals are just as gassy as any other mammal.

"Penguins are curious. When there are people, they're going to look," said P. Dee Boersma, a conservation biologist and professor at the University of Washington.

Long before our population began stockpiling an almost unimaginable array of items, animals evolved similar behaviors, though possibly for different reasons.

Dogs see the world in patterns. That's how we're able to train them, said Langan, who advises clients who lost their homes to establish new routines for their pets.

Scientists have categorized feline vocalizations into 20 groups, such as meows and purrs, and are exploring if cats have regional dialects like humans.

To better understand whether humans influenced the behavior, the team reviewed hundreds of hours of drone footage from other whale studies.

In mammals, good dads are the exception. Male leopards, bears, or cats have a habit of toddling off after mating and leaving the mothers to raise the kids.

Many animals spontaneously engage in artistic activities, demonstrating their creativity without the expectation of reward, highlighting their instinctual need to express themselves.

When it comes to hooking up, a male mantis has good reason to fear commitment.

The cockatoos learned by watching others and then trying themselves, highlighting the power of social learning in animal behavior and adaptation.

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.

The vibe between the two is likely hate, not love. The rat on the left is showing a classic submissive upright posture as the rat on the right approaches.

"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.