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...
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Bees have emotions too. Who’d have thunk? Researchers have successfully introduced bumblebees to...
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Ants are agriculturalists but that doesn’t mean they possess all the tricks humans have got....
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Do social animals possess consciousness? Plenty of animals live in groups. But some groups are...
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We can learn a lot about gender from apes. What Frans de Waal knows about chimps and bonobos is...
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Innovation by non-human animals is really rare. Researchers have discovered two chimpanzee...
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Jays are not so smart after all. Jays are pretty good at seeing through the cups-and-balls trick....
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Chimps and bonobos are really similar to us. Researchers have discovered that chimpanzees and...
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Bonobos empathise, just like us. Researchers have now discovered rare instances of female bonobos...
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We are learning more and more about animal communications. Recent research with chimpanzees shows...
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Organisms with a nervous system have consciousness. Hmmm. Peter Godfrey-Smith, he of octopus fame,...
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AI is well suited to interpreting animal communications. It is surprising that nobody thought of...
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Dr Doolittle lives again. This is a truly wide-ranging canter through the ways in which many types...
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Human emotions are just an extension of animal emotions. Another cracking read from one of the...
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Monkeys are using tools really intelligently. New research discovers that wild bearded capuchins...
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Imitation vs reasoning in chimpanzees. Scientists continue to believe that animals are not...
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Chimps are losing their cultural diversity due to too many humans. Researchers have shown a clear...
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Maybe human language is not as distinctive as previously thought. Researchers have been looking at...
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Research sheds fresh light on feats of social insects. There is a growing tendency to look at the...
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Neurons in the primate brain work differently as between monkeys and humans. It is generally...
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Fungi can do economics too. Cossins describes three pieces of research that show that non-human...
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