Recorded songs get birds to take roads less traveled
Songbird communities are typically less diverse, and many species are less abundant, near roads.
As whooping crane culture evolves, age trumps youth
Evolution is usually considered in purely biological terms. Yet in animals as well as humans, it can be cultural, too.
One more reason fish are smarter than we think
Even as people recognize the intelligence of many animal species, we lag behind when it comes to fish.
The original sea shepherds: Humpback whales defend ocean mammals
The high seas have a new sheriff: humpback whales who protect other ocean mammals from attack.
These monkeys have used tools for 700 years
The capuchin monkeys of Brazil’s Serra da Capivara National Park use stone hammers and anvils to crack open cashews — just as their parents did, and their parents’ parents, and so on
City birds are better problem-solvers
Birds that live in urban areas are better at figuring out how to access new sources of food compared to rural birds of the same species, says a new study.
To encourage mating, let pandas be picky
Some say that opposites attract. Others say that birds of a feather flock together.
Studying primate behavior to avoid primate extinction
More than half of all the primates scattered across the globe, a group that includes our own species along with the rest of the great apes, gibbons, monkeys, lemurs, lorises, galagos, and ta
To avoid multiple threats, leopards have to be crafty cats
Where there are people, expect to find few leopards.
When dolphins are at risk, so is dolphin tourism
Wildlife tourism is a fraught concept, with very good reasons to encourage it and also some important reasons to think very, very carefully about its negative consequences.
