What the monkey that threw a cucumber and the Neanderthal girl with Down syndrome reveal about us
Twenty years ago, an experiment was carried out that was as revealing as it was entertaining. Two capuchin monkeys, in ...
Tag: Animal behavior
Solidarity monkeys that shared the shade of a tree after a hurricane increased their life expectancy
In 2017, the hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico, killing thousands of people. He entered from the southwest, first devastating Cayo ...
Elephants are called by name
Elephants don't just trumpet. That sharp sound, like that of a trumpet, could be compared to the human cry launched ...
The enigma of the snow leopard, the super predator that also eats grass
The snow leopard is a felid within the order Carnivora. But the study of the feces of several specimens has ...
If the eyes are the mirror of the human soul, where is that mirror in the elephant?
A matriarch walks through the African savannah at a leisurely pace, while her group follows her a few meters away. ...
‘Rakus’, the first orangutan who has been seen healing a wound with a medicinal plant
The Fibraurea tinctoria It is a climbing plant found in the jungles of Southeast Asia. Many of the local communities ...
Talking before dancing: Why can't dogs keep up?
“Why can't dogs dance?” This was the question that cognitive biology professor W. Tecumseh Fitch asked in 2006. the scientific ...
Bonobos can be as violent or more violent than chimpanzees
For decades, a dichotomous image of the two primate species closest to humans has been built: while chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) ...
The friendship between dogs and humans finds a scientific basis that explains its origin
It is said a lot that it is man's best friend, but not so much that it is the oldest. ...
Elephant calves have been found buried, what does it mean?
He elephant graveyard myth It is deeply rooted in popular culture. A recent study of the remains of five buried ...
