Ancient poop offers unusual insight into animal behaviour: One day this fresh elephant dung could be a coprolite helping scientists understand the past. Silarock/Shutterstock Some people are annoyed when they encounter a fresh pile of dung while out on a walk in nature. Others are excited because it points to the recent visit of a …
How tracking technology is transforming our understanding of animal behaviour: Scientists fix biologger tags to animals to gain an insight into their movement and behaviour. Vasileios Karafillidis/Shutterstock Biologging is the practice of attaching devices to animals so that scientific data can be collected. For decades, basic biologgers have been used to relay physiological data including …
Cosy gaming: how curling up with Animal Crossing is changing what it means to be a gamer: Cosy gaming is creating a community for gamers outside of traditional stereotypes. Shutterstock Where once the finishing touch for our sofa-based oasis may have been a book or a romantic comedy, consumers are increasingly reaching for their Nintendo …
Insects may feel pain, says growing evidence – here’s what this means for animal welfare laws: Can this dragonfly feel pain? Stefan Csontos/Shutterstock At least a trillion insects are killed annually for food and animal feed. Routine slaughter methods include extreme heat and cold, often preceded by starvation. By comparison, “only” around 79 billion mammals …
Animal friendships are surprisingly like our own: slowmotiongli/Shutterstock When you think of friendship, what comes to mind? Is it a phone conversation that lasts late into the night? Watching a movie and sharing a pizza? Enjoying some laughs over a beer? Friendship is a central part of the human experience. Our stories, our songs and …
The night is full of animal life, but scientists know very little about it: Naturalists and life scientists have long debated how insect-eating bats navigate their dark world. Sarun T/Shutterstock Human disturbance is rapidly changing the nature of the nocturnal world. Intensive farming, suburban spread, artificially lit cities, and continuously busy road systems mean daytime …
Sex and power in the animal kingdom: seven animals that will make you reconsider what you think you know: The white-necked jacobin (Florisuga mellivora) is a medium-size hummingbird Milan Zygmunt/Shutterstock It’s easy to assume all animals have a neat dividing line between the sexes because the differences in appearance between males and females can be …
Eating less food from animal sources is key to reducing the risk of wildlife-origin diseases and global warming: Sindhi cattle near Amazon rainforest: flexitarian diets could feed the growing world population without further encroaching onto wild habitat. Lucas Ninno via GettyImages The world is at greater risk of infectious diseases that originate in wildlife because …
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Lobsters and octopuses have feelings, says new animal welfare bill – so will UK law change?: OSDG/Shutterstock Thanks to new legislation, animals will soon be recognised as “sentient beings” in UK law. Sentience is not defined in the new Animal Welfare (Sentience) Bill, but it’s typically understood as the ability to feel. Why, you might …
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Octopus farms raise huge animal welfare concerns – and they’re unsustainable too: Henner Damke/shutterstock When you imagine an octopus’s world, you might well see a curious creature in a complex undersea environment. Yet the reality of life for some octopuses is existence within a barren tank, inescapably surrounded by humans and other octopuses. This is …
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