This is a red-bellied monkey with her baby in Drabo, Benin.
Credit: Peter Neuenschwander CC-BY 4.0
During the last twenty years, scientists worked hard to protect and restore the scattered patches of a dilapidated forest and its surroundings of agricultural and...
This is Bombus bifarius, one of the three species of bumble bee studied by the Ogilvie and her team.
Credit: Jane Ogilvie
New research from a team of Florida State University scientists and their collaborators is helping to explain the link...
Playful exploration allows animals to gather information, report investigators.
Credit: Image courtesy of University of York
Researchers have discovered that New Caledonian crows and kea parrots can learn about the usefulness of objects by playing with them -- similar to human...
What makes us so different to a sea urchin? Sea urchins have just one NCoR gene, while humans have two.
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Genes which determine animal complexity -- or what makes humans so much more complex than a...
Birds' reproductive strategies have gone through a series of stages, from dinosaurs to today.
Credit: D. Anduza
What really did come first -- the chicken or the egg? Birds' reproductive biology is dramatically different from that of any other living vertebrates,...
Vibrio cholerae bacteria (green) recycle T6SS proteins of the attacking sister cells (red) to build their own spear gun (light green intracellular structure).
Credit: University of Basel
Many bacteria possess molecular spear guns, which they fire at enemies and rivals, thus...
The Barred Grass Snake (Natrix helvetica), newly recognized as a separate species, occurs in England, France, the Benelux countries, Switzerland, Italy and Western Germany.
Credit: Wolfgang Böhme
Together with an international team, Senckenberg scientists identified a new species of snake in...
This is a macaque monkey on Cayo Santiago, Puerto Rico.
Credit: Jamie Whitehouse
Scratching is more than an itch -- when it is sparked by stress, it appears to reduce aggression from others and lessen the chance of conflict.
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School of Blackfin Barracudas (stock image).
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New research sheds light on how "animal personalities" -- inter-individual differences in animal behaviour -- can drive the collective behaviour and functioning of animal groups such as schools of fish,...
Green-headed tanager (Tangara seledon).
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Climate change and habitat conversion to agriculture are working together to homogenize nature, indicates a study in the journal Global Change Biology led by the University of California, Davis.
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A pack of African wild dogs shares an impala.
Credit: Megan Claase
Scientists studying African wild dogs in Botswana have found members of this endangered species use sneezes to vote on when the pack will move off and start hunting.
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