Bumblebees have a ball by Corryn Wetzel in New Scientist 29 October 2022
Bees have emotions too. Who’d have thunk? Researchers have successfully introduced bumblebees to...
Read More
Category: ETHOLOGY
Ants have evolved to farm plants on at least 15 separate occasions by Michael Le Page in New Scientist 19 November 2022
Ants are agriculturalists but that doesn’t mean they possess all the tricks humans have got....
Read More
More equal than others in The Economist 12 November 2022
Do social animals possess consciousness? Plenty of animals live in groups. But some groups are...
Read More
“Humans police the expression of sex and gender much more than other primates do” by Rowan Hooper interviewing Frans de Waal in New Scientist 7 May 2022
We can learn a lot about gender from apes. What Frans de Waal knows about chimps and bonobos is...
Read More
Chimps crack the secret of evolution by Tom Whipple in The Times 25 January 2022
Innovation by non-human animals is really rare. Researchers have discovered two chimpanzee...
Read More
Animal magic by Sam Wong in News Scientist 18 December 2021
Jays are not so smart after all. Jays are pretty good at seeing through the cups-and-balls trick....
Read More
Apes show that good manners are law of the jungle by Kaya Burgess in The Times 12 August 2021
Chimps and bonobos are really similar to us. Researchers have discovered that chimpanzees and...
Read More
Apes adopt orphans in display of altruism by Rhys Blakely in The Times 19 March 2021
Bonobos empathise, just like us. Researchers have now discovered rare instances of female bonobos...
Read More
Chimpanzees seem to speak in sentences of three or more calls by Michael Marshall in New Scientist 20 February 2021
We are learning more and more about animal communications. Recent research with chimpanzees shows...
Read More
Metazoa by Peter Godfrey-Smith 2020
Organisms with a nervous system have consciousness. Hmmm. Peter Godfrey-Smith, he of octopus fame,...
Read More
Talk to the animals by Edd Gent in New Scientist 19 December 2020
AI is well suited to interpreting animal communications. It is surprising that nobody thought of...
Read More
Animal languages by Eva Meijer 2016
Dr Doolittle lives again. This is a truly wide-ranging canter through the ways in which many types...
Read More
Mama’s last hug by Frans de Waal, 2019
Human emotions are just an extension of animal emotions. Another cracking read from one of the...
Read More
Bang the rocks together, guys in The Economist 29 June 2019
Monkeys are using tools really intelligently. New research discovers that wild bearded capuchins...
Read More
Innovative chimpanzees by Michael Marshall in NewScientist 25 May 2019
Imitation vs reasoning in chimpanzees. Scientists continue to believe that animals are not...
Read More
Chimps are losing their culture by Michael Marshall in NewScientist 16 March 2019
Chimps are losing their cultural diversity due to too many humans. Researchers have shown a clear...
Read More
Chimp signals a bit like human speech in NewScientist 23 February 2019
Maybe human language is not as distinctive as previously thought. Researchers have been looking at...
Read More
Infrastructure construction without information exchange: the trail clearing mechanism in Atta leafcutter ants by T Bochynek et al in Proc. R. Soc. B 23 January 2019
Research sheds fresh light on feats of social insects. There is a growing tendency to look at the...
Read More
Brain study probes primate software by Alison Abbott in Nature 24 January 2019
Neurons in the primate brain work differently as between monkeys and humans. It is generally...
Read More
Rogue traders by Daniel Cossins in NewScientist 22 December 2018
Fungi can do economics too. Cossins describes three pieces of research that show that non-human...
Read More