by Chris Chu | Oct 17, 2023 | Communication, Learning, Personality, Social behavior
If the sheep goes baa, the duck goes quack and the cow goes moo, what about the manatee? Manatee’s (genus Trichechus), nicknamed “the sea cow”, are large aquatic mammals with stouts and a flat rounded tail used to help them propel themselves through water. Their...
by Harrison Solomon | Oct 17, 2023 | Aggression, Foraging, Personality
We’ve all dealt with toxic roommates. For palmate newts (Lissotriton helveticus) living in small ponds with invasive goldfish(Carassius auratus), it’s not that different from a toxic human roommate. Except, this toxic roommate may bite at you, influence your...
by Paula Soric | Oct 25, 2022 | Mating, Personality
You cherish your partner and love spending time with them, but it’s obvious you two have different ideas of what’s fun; you think staying in is an ideal way to connect with your significant other, but they keep insisting on hiking trips? You’d rather order takeout but...
by Vikas Gudhe | Oct 25, 2022 | Animal Tales for Kids, Communication, Personality, Social behavior
“A chimpanzee playing bongo drums to a crowd of other chimpanzees” . This image was generated using DALL-E Artifical Intelligence by Vikas Gudhe licensed under CC BY 4.0 Who’s your favorite drummer? Yeah, Ringo Starr was my first choice, but I think the chimpanzees...
by 2019 Class | Oct 19, 2020 | Personality
By Jessica Zhou ’22 Human praise themselves as the most advanced animal, but sometimes, when facing the tragedy of our own compatriots, they do not perform as well as those seemingly inferior animals. Near the Mediterranean in 2016, scientists discovered that...
by 2019 Class | Oct 18, 2020 | Personality
By Julia Unangst ’20 Science tends to oversimplify the behavior of non-human individuals, but a recent experiment offers evidence that things may be more complicated than previously thought. When I was ten, my father purchased an aquarium. He proudly set it up...
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