News tagged with natural behavior


Two is not company -- as far as fish are concerned

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jun 29, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Research at the Universities of Plymouth and Exeter has shown that fish kept alone or in small groups are more aggressive and exhibit fewer natural behaviors such as shoaling. Dr Katherine Sloman will discuss the findings ...





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Dog

What really prompts the dog's "guilty look"

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jun 11, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (17) | comments 7

What dog owner has not come home to a broken vase or other valuable items and a guilty-looking dog slouching around the house? By ingeniously setting up conditions where the owner was misinformed as to whether ...


Anthropologist researches evolution of Darwin’s theory

Anthropologist researches evolution of Darwin’s theory

Biology / Evolution

created Sep 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- New research by University of Notre Dame anthropologist Agustin Fuentes, published recently in the European journal Anthropology Today, states that although Darwin’s basic ideas still form t ...


Was Triceratops a social animal?

Was Triceratops a social animal?

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Mar 24, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (8) | comments 1

Until now, Triceratops was thought to be unusual among its ceratopsid relatives. While many ceratopsids—a common group of herbivorous dinosaurs that lived toward the end of the Cretaceous—have been found ...


Small molecules mimic natural gene regulators

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jun 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- In the quest for new approaches to treating and preventing disease, one appealing route involves turning genes on or off at will, directly intervening in ailments such as cancer and diabetes, which result ...


Psychoactive compound activates mysterious receptor

Chemistry /

created Feb 12, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (14) | comments 15

(PhysOrg.com) -- A hallucinogenic compound found in a plant indigenous to South America and used in shamanic rituals regulates a mysterious protein that is abundant throughout the body, University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers ...


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New research demonstrates humans' right ear preference for listening

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jun 23, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (5) | comments 8

We humans prefer to be addressed in our right ear and are more likely to perform a task when we receive the request in our right ear rather than our left. In a series of three studies, looking at ear preference ...


Women More Likely Than Men to Suffer Depression After Stroke

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Depression occurs in as many as one-third of patients after a stroke, and women are at somewhat higher risk, according to a large new review of studies. Post-stroke depression is associated with greater disability, ...


Life is tweet: first bird had hearing like an emu's

High-tech imaging of inner ear sheds light on hearing, behavior of oldest fossil bird

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Jan 14, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The earliest known bird, the magpie-sized Archaeopteryx, had a similar hearing range to the modern emu, which suggests that the 145 million-year-old creature — despite its reptilian teeth and long tail — was ...


Ants get their place in Smithsonian exhibit

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 29, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Running a museum is no picnic, but the Smithsonian is attracting ants anyway.


Same-sex behavior seen in nearly all animals, review finds

Same-sex behavior seen in nearly all animals

Biology / Other

created Jun 16, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (21) | comments 7

Same-sex behavior is a nearly universal phenomenon in the animal kingdom, common across species, from worms to frogs to birds, concludes a new review of existing research.



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