They pretend they’re dead and use a variety of other tactics to avoid the advances of overeager males, proving they’re not defenseless and passive.
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The semiaquatic reptiles seemed to be roused to action in a study when they heard recordings of crying human and ape infants.
The bugs are unique among colony-forming insects in that their queens cannot rule without a king.
Nearly 50,000 preterm births may have been averted across a group of mostly high-income countries in one month alone.
A maternal preference for sons in a group of killer whales that swim off the Pacific Northwest may contribute to its endangered status.
These four sounds are missing from some of the seven words you can never say on television, and the pattern prevails in other languages too, researchers say.
As cephalopods become more important in neuroscience and other fields, scientists and welfare advocates seek to give the smart animals the same protections as mice and monkeys.
It is difficult to catch Asian elephants responding to deaths of herd members in the wild, but online videos helped researchers observe the behavior.
A study of Australian fish that care for offspring through mouthbrooding shows that things underwater are not always as monogamous as they seem.
Some pairs of cranes in India, known for their monogamous devotion, seem to bring in a third bird to act like a kind of avian au pair.