Our pet cats and dogs scratch themselves to alleviate an itch. It is perfectly instinctive and normal. Nature through evolution gave them that behavioural trait. It is not learned. They are born with it as it is handed down in their DNA – as it …
SCIENCE & OPINION: This is a worrying development for conservationists and I would argue for anybody living on the planet. 😢 There are various signs of global warming like the many more hottest days in history (on average, globally) and the hottest July ever last …
An interesting scientific study has come to the conclusion that after a hard day’s work, apes like to hang onto a vine and twizzle around i.e. spin around so that they become dizzy because it alters their consciousness in the same way that alcohol alters …
Some king cobra stuff for aficionados starting with a video of an impressive king cobra doing his defensive threat display in a video standing around 6 feet tall. The king cobra is one of the most venomous snakes on the planet. As you can …
Humpback whales have changed their behaviour when looking for a mate with which to start a family. Back in the day when the humpback whale had been decimated to less than 500 in the 1960s off the east coast of Australia, they were far more …
It is ironic that people use the phrase “pig ignorant” to denigrate stupid people or people who are acting stupidly. Arguably the people who use this phrase are being stupid themselves because pigs are smart. The late Stanley Curtis, a US professor of animal sciences, …
NEWS AND COMMENT: Researchers have discovered that chimpanzees in Gabon, Africa, treat each other with the fluid inside an unknown insect (haemolymph) when they have suffered a wound which causes a cut. It is believed that this fluid contains something which helps to alleviate discomfort …
NEWS AND COMMENT- LOPBURI, THAILAND: In echoes of a prequel to the well-known film the Planet of the Apes the macaque monkeys of Lopburi in Thailand have broken out of their temple and are causing mayhem in the town, forming gangs and fighting over territory …
A study discovered that bickering macaques made the effort to extend their social network by making more relationships to aid survival under the dire circumstances of an ecological disaster as occurred when a hurricane devastated the primates’ Caribbean island home. The vegetation was striped from …
