Activity Data Reveals Brown Bear Denning Timing
A new method using accelerometer data accurately estimates brown bear den entry and exit dates, revealing significant lags between site ...
Tag: animal behavior
Head-mounted 4π camera reconstructs flight and hunting behavior in freely flying Harris’s hawks
A tetherless head-mounted 4π camera combined with drone-based environmental scanning reconstructed flight trajectories, head motion and prey capture behavior in ...
Male Painted Turtles Call More Variably Than Females, Study Finds
A study of Midland Painted Turtles identified five call types, a male-only vocalization, and greater within-male acoustic variability consistent with ...
Wild chimpanzee mothers hand tools to infants, footage reveals teaching in action
Camera-trap footage from Senegal shows adult chimpanzees handing tools and fruit to infants in what researchers interpret as a form ...
Asian Elephants Demonstrate Inhibitory Control in Thailand Experiment
An experiment involving 16 Asian elephants in Thailand found that the animals generally suppressed ineffective approaches and used a more ...
Monk parakeet aggression shows no major sex-based difference
A peer-reviewed study of monk parakeets found no major differences between males and females in initiating fights, receiving aggression or ...
Six-male field study documents two advertisement call types in the treefrog Gracixalus weii
Six male Gracixalus weii treefrogs produced two advertisement call types, including a broadband Type A call that resembled Black-breasted Thrush ...
AI Watches the Whole Flock: Trajectory-Free Anomaly Detection for Dense Hen Houses
Researchers have developed a trajectory-free, semi-supervised anomaly detection framework that monitors entire hen flocks through statistical activity and density cues, ...
AI learns to read dogs: new 4D dataset captures human–dog interactions in motion
Researchers have built InterPet4D, the first large-scale multimodal 4D dataset of human–dog interactions, and used it to train an AI ...
Virtual Dating Game Reveals How Fish Design Their Perfect Mates
University of Exeter scientists used genetic algorithms and virtual fish to let green swordtails design their ideal mates over nine ...
Life after (feigned) death
A new study led by scientists from the University of Bristol has revealed what animals do after they have feigned ...
