by Katy Spilsbury | Oct 17, 2023 | Foraging
Humans impact animal behavior in many ways, but can our food choices impact what other animals decide what to eat? A study from researchers in England seems to suggest we can. Franziska Feist’s team studied gulls on a popular beach, trying to investigate how human...
by Madeleine Campbell | Oct 17, 2023 | Foraging
Whale sharks are nicknamed “Gentle Giants” for a reason. The world’s largest fish, they are colossal but harmless, spending most of their time filter-feeding on plankton at the ocean’s surface. Given their size, which usually sits between 18 and 40 feet and 15 and 20...
by Abby Zavadil | Oct 17, 2023 | Anti-predator behavior
Do you remember in Finding Nemo, when Dory and Marlin are trying to escape to the ocean and land on a dock? Then hundreds of Pelicans flay after them and try to scoop them up with their beaks saying “Mine, Mine, Mine”? As viewers of the scene it is quite stressful to...
by Sam Lee | Oct 17, 2023 | Communication
Vocal behaviors are a key signal for animal communication. Communication assists organisms with mating tactics, creates signals about predators, and conveys who is dominant. While vocal communication seems fairly straightforward, it actually integrates physiology,...
by Liz Cramer | Oct 17, 2023 | Foraging, Learning
Social learning is defined as “the capacity to acquire information from other individuals,” and has been observed in a variety of species, including many bird species (Danel et al., 2023, p. 153). Birds have proven to be especially prone to social learning,...
