The research, "My Cat and Me-a Study of Cat Owner Perceptions of Their Bond and Relationship," has examined the behavior of pet cats to understand what it means about their relationship with their owner. The study reveals that cats...
A study maps out the genome sequence of the Basenji dog which could impact understanding of dog evolution and dog breeds. It may also unravel the evolutionary history of early dogs and how humans have shaped the first dogs...
The biological makeup of hermit crabs and mantis shrimps provide natural defenses against attacks and hazards. Researchers discover that these biomechanical structures involve chemical gradients from nanometer to centimeter and that there is an apparent correlation between microstructure and...
Some mammals have the ability to use intestines to breathe in times of respiratory failure. This presents a possibility for clinical management among humans. This new discovery may even have implications for innovative treatment methods for SARS-CoV-2.
Rodents and pigs...
Pyrosomes, named after the Greek words for 'fire bodies' due their bright bioluminescence, are pelagic tunicates that spend their entire lives swimming in the open ocean. They are made up of many smaller animals, known as zooids, that sit...
Mammals see with their eyes, hear with their ears and smell with their nose. But which sense or organ allows them to orient themselves on their migrations, which sometimes go far beyond their local foraging areas and therefore require...
Sea turtles are known for relying on magnetic signatures to find their way across thousands of miles to the very beaches where they hatched. Now, researchers reporting in the journal Current Biology on May 6 have some of the first solid...
An individual human can maintain stable social relationships with about 150 people. This is the proposition known as "Dunbar's number"—that the architecture of the human brain sets an upper limit on our social lives. A new study from Stockholm...
Chimpanzees and bonobos diverged comparatively recently in great ape evolutionary history. They split into different species about 1.7 million years ago. Some of the distinctions between chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) and bonobo (Pan paniscus) lineages have been made clearer by...
Researchers from NYU Abu Dhabi's Center for Genomics and Systems Biology have successfully sequenced the genome of previously extinct date palm varieties that lived more than 2,000 years ago. They did so using date palm seeds that were recovered...
We usually assume that inbreeding is bad and should be avoided under all circumstances. But new research performed by researchers at Stockholm University, published in Nature Ecology and Evolution, shows that there is little support for this assumption.
The idea that animals should...
