by Grant Gerhardt | Oct 21, 2023 | Animal Tales for Kids, Foraging
It’s a bright, chilly morning on the Canadian tundra. You crawl out of your den, eyelids heavy from sleep, into the light of day. The Sun hardly sets this time of year, its harsh light makes you squint as you emerge onto the flat expanse of squishy, wet, half-frozen...
by Emily Rogers | Oct 21, 2023 | Animal Tales for Kids, Foraging
Are you right handed or left handed? Did you know that animals can be right or left handed too? Even if they don’t have hands, a lot of animals do “behavioral lateralization” which means that they use one side of their body more than the other side. Fish, mammals,...
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 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,...
by Maggie Potter | Oct 17, 2023 | Foraging
On a small Pacific island off the coast of Australia, there live crows who craft and use hooks. This is no small feat, as New Caldonian crows, the species of crow found only on this island, are the only other animal besides humans known to manufacture hooked tools....
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