Category Archives: Animal Behaviour

Did you know this about capybaras?

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What anaesthetics reveal about consciousness | Nick Lane ft. Luca Turin

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Doghoven.

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That one last kid in every family…

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I have so many questions

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Fun fact of the day: bats can actually swim

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Study of African Elephants Show They Have Names For Each other and Respond to Those Names!

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Young Orcas Are Still Sinking Boats and Now We Know Why | My Modern Met

By Elizabeth Beiser on June 5, 2024 Photo: Kamchatka/Depositphotos Teen orcas just want to have fun…by sinking yachts. Since 2017, there have been regular “attacks” on boats in the Atlantic and Mediterranean. Orcas have been ramming themselves into boats to … Continue reading

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Exploring the Mysterious Alphabet of Sperm Whales

MIT News: https://news.mit.edu/2024/csail-ceti-… Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s4146… Project CETI: https://www.projectceti.org/ Authors: Daniela Rus (MIT CSAIL), Antonio Torralba (MIT CSAIL), Jacob Andreas (MIT CSAIL), Pratyusha Sharma (MIT CSAIL), Shane Gero (Project CETI), Roger Payne (Project CETI), and David F. Gruber (Project CETI) Videographer: … Continue reading

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Sperm Whales Vocalize an Alphabet Hauntingly Like Humans | My Modern Met

By Madeleine Muzdakis on June 2, 2024 Sperm whales swim near Mauritius. (Photo: Gabriel Barathieu via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 DEED) Sperm whales are fascinating creatures. Endangered and still recovering from being hunted by whalers in the 19th century, … Continue reading

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