Antonio J. Osuna Mascaró, Goffin Lab, Vienna, Austria PhD^2 and Ninja Biologist. Animal Behavior and Comparative Cognition. Human perch for cockatoos. Also here: twitter.com/BioTay More about me here: https://osunamascaro.weebly.com/
1/8 Chimpanzees and bonobos seek physical contact when they anticipate a socially stressful situation. Physical contact reduces the tension that follows. The most interesting finding, however, is the importance of differences between groups. (paper) royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
1/2 Object play in mid-flight The behavior of dropping objects while in flight and catching them before they hit the ground has been documented in more than 25 species of birds, ranging from gulls to swallows, birds of prey, and corvids. (paper, 2013) www.researchgate.net/publication/...
1/2 Cosmic Justice from Early Childhood In this experiment, 150 children aged 5, 9, and 14 months were less surprised when negative (unintended) events happened to bad (antisocial) people than to good (prosocial) people. (paper) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
1/4 Orcas making sunfish explode One orca firmly holds the carcass of a sunfish (whose viscera have already been removed) while an adult male crashes into it at high speed, making it explode into countless pieces. (paper) www.frontiersin.org/journals/eth...
Bouba and Kiki might be reversed in tortoises In this study involving 10 tortoises (T. marginata and a mix with T. graeca), they explored the opposite of what the effect predicts. Perhaps this is because they were exploring the unexpected alternative (paper) link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Adelaida, a subadult female chimpanzee, is seen wearing a leafy branch around her neck. This seems to be part of a cultural tradition in the Nouabale-Ndoki National Park (Republic of Congo) seen on: wcs_congo (Instagram) www.instagram.com/p/DaxFAnfDkri/ photo: G. Gaudin/WCS
1/7 Like us, bumblebees “lick their lips” when they drink something they enjoy After drinking a sugar solution, they repeatedly protrude their glossa, but they do not do so after tasting water. What is particularly interesting is that this response is flexible. (paper) www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
1/3 Cat allogrooming may conceal aggressive intentions It seems that grooming between cats is not always positive. In this study, the authors examine how cats may sometimes groom another individual in order to displace it from a preferred location. (paper) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
1/11 The dimensions of animal empathy In this study, the authors attempt to understand the different forms that empathy may take in other species. (paper) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...