In respect of social bonding and friendships, a study from the Austral University of Chile found that cows behave like their wild ancestors, aurochs; wild cattle which inhabited Asia, Europe and North Africa. Domestication has not removed from their memory how to instinctively protect the …
“Dishonest signalling” describes an animal making a sound which portrays itself as bigger than it really is. Often the purpose is to attract mates. It sounds like human behaviour doesn’t it? Humans often exaggerate to impress. In this instance, however, researchers say that their preliminary …
This is another study which points to a general human ignorance about the intelligence of animals and their ability to feel emotions. Humans are gradually learning and losing some of their arrogance but it is a long road. The goat was one of the first …
Wild animal predators are constantly calculating the cost-benefit of attacking and eating another animal or in defence.
For centuries the arrogant human thought that deductive reasoning was the hallmark of human intelligence. Arrogant human is now awakening to the possibility that they have been wrong with respect to non-human intelligence and sensibilities for centuries. Today, we learn in The Times newspaper that …
