Introducing co-cultures: When co-habiting animal species share culture

Interactions between Japanese macaques and Sika deer. Credit: Trends in Ecology & Evolution (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2024.05.

The Animals Are Talking. What Does It Mean?

Can a mouse learn a new song? Such a question might seem whimsical. Though humans have lived alongside mice for at least 15,000 years, few of us have ever heard mice sing, because they do so in frequencies beyond the range detectable by human hearing.

Why the Animal Kingdom Is Full of Con Artists

The New Yorker

On April 20, 1848, Alfred Russel Wallace and Henry Walter Bates set off for the Amazon on a boat named Mischief. The two young men—Bates was twenty-three, Wallace twenty-five—had met a few years earlier, probably at a library in Leicester, in England’s East Midlands.

Diving birds are more prone to extinction, says new study

BirdWatching

Diving birds like penguins, puffins, and cormorants may be more prone to extinction than non-diving birds, according to a new study by the Milner Centre for Evolution at the University of Bath.

The Bizarre Bird That’s Breaking the Tree of Life

The New Yorker

When Josefin Stiller was growing up in Berlin, she loved reading about Greek gods in an encyclopedia of mythology. She often lost track of their relationships, however—their feuds, trysts, and betrayals—as she flipped among the entries.