Summer holidays are over. I hope you didn’t expereince pickpockets in crowded turistic places.
Unless they were monkeys. I would like to experience that.
Monkey thieves
Food preferences
Just like humans, individual Galapagos sea lions differ in their food preferences.
Such differences can have far reaching consequences, for individuals and populations.
Bzzzzz
“It’s late spring. It’s the time to have an evening drink in the garden, a relaxing walk in the forest filled with singing birds and to open the windows during the first warm nights.
Bzzzz…
But the peaceful mood is gone when we hear a mosquito flying past our ear.
Our best chance of killing the mosquito seems to be when they land on us, hopefully before they “bite”*.
Why are they so difficult to swat when flying?“
I know your face
“Have you ever realised how good we are at recognising each other’s faces?
We are able to do so since birth and, with normal every-day experience, we get even better at it. Our faces differ in many respects: the shape of the nose or mouth, eye colour, eye distance, and many other features. But we don’t view them separately. Our brains process human faces holistically – as a whole that is more than just the sum of its parts. For example, we can easily tell different noses apart when they are added to a picture of a face, but have much more difficulty when looking at the noses alone.
We are not the only species that process faces in a holistic manner.“
Communication
Communication between mothers and children is important also in animals. Orangutans use not only sounds but also gestures.
Teleportation and cats
You can do it at home with your cat (or dog, or maybe even other pet?)
Spiders against snakes
Who will win? That depends.
Check out more here (if you don’t mind looking at spiders eating snakes).
On spiders catching snakes
Wild rabbits
In some places they are pests, but in their native range their populations are actually declining.
They are the ancestors of domesticated rabits, but live different lives – in groups, in underground borrows.
The mothers spend only 5 minutes per day with their young, but still keeping an ear on them.
Naked mole-rats
This small animals are amazing!
They live in large underground colonies with one ot two queens.
They live very long for a small rodent.
They are very bad at keeping constant body temperature, but they do have some hairs.
Check out more about them here:
Insects as medicine
Animals often use plants to heal themselves. But using insects is very rare, but it does happen:
Books, Science, etc 