News tagged with animal societies
Clownfish provide clues to animal conflicts
Jul 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Animal societies are hotbeds of conflict and cooperation, with creatures helping each other one moment and fighting the next. Biologist Andrew Zink has developed a new theoretical framework ...
Researchers tie crest size to seabirds' suitability as a mate
Apr 16, 2009 |
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A newly released study by researchers at the University of Alaska Fairbanks offers evidence that in one breed of northern seabird, the size of males' feather crests may be more than simple ornamentation.
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Mystery about domestication of horse has been unravelled -- now location and time are proofed
Apr 23, 2009 |
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Wild horses were domesticated in the Ponto-Caspian steppe region (today Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Romania) in the 3rd millennium B.C. Despite the pivotal role horses have played in the history of human societies, the process ...
Horse whisperers, lion tamers not needed: Scientists find genetic regions that soothe savage beasts
Jun 08, 2009 |
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In what could be a breakthrough in animal breeding, a team of scientists from Germany, Russia and Sweden have discovered a set of genetic regions responsible for animal tameness. This discovery, published in the June 2009 ...
Execretion analysis aids primate social studies
Feb 15, 2009 |
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The arrival of molecular genetic analysis of both genes and hormones is providing scientists unexpected and unprecedented information about animals -- provided the researchers can find ways to get acceptable samples, said ...
Team approach appears to work best for insect colonies
Mar 27, 2009 |
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The study's findings appear to echo the insect worlds portrayed in the animated films Antz and Bee Movie, in which the characters live in rigidly conformist societies.
Competition, loss of selfishness mark shift to supersociety
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Jun 11, 2007 |
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How social or altruistic behavior evolved has been a central and hotly debated question, particularly by those researchers engaged in the study of social insect societies – ants, bees and wasps. In these groups, this question ...
Hydrocarbon afterglow reveals reproductive cheaters
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Jan 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- An ‘honest indicator’ has been discovered by a scientific team at Arizona State University that reveals reproductive cheating. But before you run out to buy an infidelity identification kit, ...
Conditions better for Ohio dogs, not cats
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Jul 06, 2006 |
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Conditions for dogs in Ohio's animal shelters have improved during the past decade, but they have deteriorated for cats.
Spotted hyenas can increase survival rates by hunting alone
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Jul 16, 2008 |
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Recent research by Michigan State University doctoral student Jennifer Smith has shed new light on the way spotted hyenas live together and – more importantly – hunt for their food alone.
Ants show us how to make super-highways
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May 27, 2007 |
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[B]Army ants form living pothole plugs to speed up delivery[/B] Certain army ants in the rainforests of Central and South America conduct spectacular predatory raids containing up to 200,000 foraging ants. Remarkably, som ...
Baboon dads have surprising influence on daughters' fitness
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Feb 04, 2008 |
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Polygamous baboon fathers get more grandchildren if they spend a little time with their children during their juvenile years, according to research directed by scientists at Duke and Princeton universities.
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