Category: Animals
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Birds in a cave…
Bird species that live in their natural habitats can help zoos learn how to manage those in captivity, according to a new review. (1) Catch me if you can. Sleeping. Talking. Inside a cave. Nothing to see but yourself. Can you feel it? Wanting to sing. Because you were flying free once. Even though you…
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Fish. Stories. Walking beyond that tree…
If you look deep into the eyes of a fish, it will tell you its life story. Scientists demonstrate that they can use stable isotopic analysis of the eye lenses of freshwater fish — including threatened and endangered salmon — to reveal a fish’s life history and what it ate along the way. (1) Look…
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Wag the tail…
Even though dogs gaze into man’s eyes, dog brains may not process faces as human brains do. A new study suggests that the canine visual system is organized differently: the face network found in primates may not extend to all mammals. (1) Stupid humans. Believing all others see the world as they do. But dogs…
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Ignore… you!
Electric fish generate electric pulses to communicate with other fish and sense their surroundings. Some species broadcast shorter electric pulses, while others send out long ones. But all that zip-zapping in the water can get confusing. The fish need to filter out their own pulses so they can identify external messages and only respond to…
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Copying sounds. Speaking?
Bats can learn to mimic specific sounds, which puts them into an elite group of animals capable of this. Studying how bats can copy noises could help us learn more about humans’ unique capacity for speech and language. (1) Listen. Speak. Oh child. How did you learn to speak? If not by listening to people…
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