Even after millennia of living with domesticated dogs, we still don’t understand why our furry companions wag their tails. Scientists from the German Max Planck Institute now come up with…
Female Chinese grasshoppers raise their young in nests and feed them milk that is more nutritious than cow’s milk. Spiders are not among the most popular creatures, yet some species…
Parasites are not necessarily harmful to their hosts and are often one of the main driving forces for the functioning of a particular habitat. Aliens can change the behavior of…
As? From the tip or from the stem? Whether you belong to the side of the population that peels a banana from the tip, or vice versa, to the side…
Although plants cannot walk to find a suitable place to live, they use other mechanisms – for example, they can orient themselves in the direction of the sun’s rays. Sunflowers…
A mysterious lory paralysis syndrome is again rampant in Australia, knocking parrots and other frugivores out of the sky. But the cause of this syndrome still remains unknown. About 200…
Everyone probably knows that the largest land animal today is the elephant, but record holders in the category of birds, reptiles or amphibians have considerably less publicity. The long-extinct giants…
It is one of the most famous and actually the most common fruits in the world. Probably none of us expects that an apple could surprise him with something. It…
The attempt got a bit out of Manon Schweinfurth’s control, even though she had thought it through perfectly. She hadn’t counted on Bobby. This twenty-four-year-old male chimpanzee despised the offer…
Most representatives of the terrestrial flora can do no more than a soft rustling in the gusts of wind in the acoustic region. At the same time, plants conduct complex…