6 stories tagged with #animal-behavior, in publish-time order across the WeSearch catalog. Tag pages update as new stories ingest.
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Masturbation among birds is ‘natural’ and should not be punished, say experts
Study finds activity is not harmful or caused by stress of captivity – and is in fact more common in wild birds An investigation into acts of self-pleasure among parrots and other …
Beluga Whales May Recognize Themselves in Mirrors — and One Even Returned with a Hoop
Learn how a mirror test with beluga whales revealed bubble play, toy use, and signs of self-awareness rarely seen in animals.…
They Call It Stupid Hot For a Reason
They Call It Stupid Hot For a Reason: How heat muddles animal brains…
Belugas Can Recognize Themselves in Mirrors, Joining a Short List of Nonhuman Species That Show Signs of Self-Awareness
The researchers hope that this new understanding of cognition in the toothed whales will increase human empathy and concern for the animals, leading to more efforts to protect them…
Meow-Omni 1: a multi-modal feline LLM
Deciphering animal intent is a fundamental challenge in computational ethology, largely because of semantic aliasing, the phenomenon where identical external signals (e.g., a cat's…
Urban birds fear women more than men, and scientists don't know why
An international team of researchers have made the surprising discovery that urban birds—such as great tits, house sparrows and blackbirds—flee sooner when approached by women comp…