Learning to Change
One of the hallmarks of human nature is our remarkably flexible behaviour, especially in the social domain

Emergence of a Peaceful Culture in Wild Baboons
For most animal species, behavioral attributes are largely the product of interactions between genes and environment, with behavioral patterns preserved by natural selection

A Pacific Culture among Wild Baboons: Its Emergence and Transmission
Reports exist of transmission of culture in nonhuman primates.

Music notation: a new method for visualizing social interaction in animals and humans
In this paper the author introduced a new graphical method for the visual display of interaction records in human and animal groups

Snuggling Skunks: Is It Better To Brave Winter Alone Or In A Group?
A fascinating study looks at the benefits of huddling vs. solitude, comparing strategies used by striped skunks to get through long, cold winters in northern climates.

Wild Meerkats School Their Young
University of Cambridge scientists have discovered that older meerkats teach pups how to obtain food by incrementally introducing dead, injured and then live prey.

Rare Ant May Help Solve Some Mysteries Of Social Evolution
Ecologists at Ohio State University cracked open an acorn they had found in an Ohio park and discovered a colony of extremely rare ants

Worker Ants Store Fat To Share With Colony Members During Times Of Need
Daniel A. Hahn (University of Florida) explores the ability of ants to store excess fat and pass it to colony members through lipid-rich oral secretions or unfertilized eggs.

Drunken Elephants: The Marula Fruit Myth
Biologists from the University of Bristol argue that it is nearly impossible for elephants to become intoxicated from eating the fruit of the marula tree.

Hibernating Squirrels Provide Clues For Stroke, Parkinson's
A compound that enables squirrels to hibernate may one day help minimize brain damage that results from stroke

Have You Ever Seen An Elephant ... Run?
If an elephant is thundering towards you at 15mph you are probably not too concerned with the finer points of biomechanics or the thorny question about whether they are truly running or not.

Memory Experts Show Sleeping Rats May Have Visual Dreams
Memories of our life stories may be reinforced while we sleep

Are Animals As Irrational As Humans?
Animals in the wild are constantly confronted with decisions where to nest, who to mate, where the best forage is

Eavesdropping Occurs Among Animals, Finds Evolutionary Biologist
Eavesdropping among animals influences their behavior

Evolution Of Animal Personalities
Animals differ strikingly in character and temperament.

Male Elephants Woo Females With Precise Chemistry
The exact chemical blend of a pheromone emitted by older male elephants in musth influences both a female elephant's interest in mating and how other surrounding elephants behave

Pigs use brain not brawn in anger management
Pigs can use their brainpower to avoid the fighting that usually occurs when they are mixed together on farms

Q. Why did the chicken cross the road? A. To take a lesson in diet and social behaviour.
The ability of animals to teach by passing on information to others may be more widespread throughout the animal kingdom than previously thought

Constant Din Of Barking Causes Stress, Behavior Changes In Dogs In Shelters
If your neighbor's barking dog drives you crazy, pity the employees of the nation's animal shelters, where the noise produced by howling, barking and yapping dogs often exceeds that produced by a jackhammer.

Dogs On The Scent Of Better Behaviour
Dogs in animal shelters can be helped to behave better by wafting special scents throughout their kennels and corridors, animal behaviour experts from the University of Edinburgh have found.