Animals can fall into an "ecological trap" by altering their behavior in the "wrong direction" in response to climate change, researchers say.
Evolution
Dec 16, 2020
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Zoologists from Trinity College Dublin, working in tropical Southeast Asia, have uncovered a modern-day example of rapid evolution in action.
Plants & Animals
Oct 8, 2020
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Cooperative breeding may facilitate the development of sophisticated communicative abilities such as intentionality and joint attention skills. Two new studies of researchers of the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 11, 2019
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Using DNA sequences for 402 of the 452 species of the world's "babblers," an international team from China, Sweden, Denmark, Switzerland and the USA have analysed the evolutionary relationships among these species. Many of ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 26, 2018
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Stringing together meaningless sounds to create meaningful signals was previously thought to be the preserve of humans alone, but a new study has revealed that babbler birds are also able to communicate in this way.
Plants & Animals
Jun 29, 2015
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Eavesdropping in the wild – or the ability to gather information from other species – could influence the survival of some animal species.
Plants & Animals
Sep 16, 2013
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Having relations around to help look after the kids lets mothers ease off and save energy for the next lot, a study of Australian cooperative birds shows.
Plants & Animals
Oct 24, 2012
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Most animals don't spend nearly as much time and energy defending nesting or mating sites against intruders outside the breeding season. That's a given.
Plants & Animals
Feb 1, 2012
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Like gangsters running a protection racket, drongos in the Kalahari Desert act as lookouts for other birds in order to steal a cut of their food catch. The behaviour, revealed in research funded by the Biotechnology and Biological ...
Evolution
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