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Image credits: Plzdontloveme Looking at adorable animals on the internet isn’t just a way to pass the time; research suggests that it can also make people more productive. Experimenters found ...
The reason why some researchers are skeptical about animals having a sense of humor is that it serves no evolutionary purpose. For humans, it's a bonding strategy. For humans, it's a bonding strategy.
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The door's upper side is often effectively camouflaged with local materials such as pebbles and sticks. The spider spins silk fishing lines, or trip wires, that radiate out of the burrow entrance. When the spider is using the trap to capture prey, its chelicerae (protruding mouthparts) hold the door shut on the end furthest from the hinge. Prey ...
A flock of auklets exhibit swarm behaviour. Swarm behaviour, or swarming, is a collective behaviour exhibited by entities, particularly animals, of similar size which aggregate together, perhaps milling about the same spot or perhaps moving en masse or migrating in some direction.
All insects have antennae, however they may be greatly reduced in the larval forms. Amongst the non-insect classes of the Hexapoda, both Collembola and Diplura have antenna, but Protura do not. [9] Antennal fibrillae play an important role in Culex pipiens mating practices. The erection of these fibrillae is considered to be the first stage in ...
Gaping is a common form of behavior in the animal kingdom, in which an animal opens its mouth widely and displays the interior of its mouth, for any of various purposes. [1] This may be a form of deimatic behaviour , colloquially known as a startle display or threat display, as it enlarges the appearance of the animal, and for those with teeth ...
Top: A male ornate boxfish (aracana ornata). Bottom left: a close-up of the boxfish’s natural hexagonal pattern. Bottom center: fish pattern simulation based on Turing’s reaction-diffusion theory.