Elephants use medicinal plants to treat themselves, researchers find #Elephants #WildlifeConservation #MedicinalPlants #AnimalBehavior #AfricanElephants

Elephants use medicinal plants to treat themselves, researchers find #Elephants #WildlifeConservation #MedicinalPlants #AnimalBehavior

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"Nature doesn’t need our adjectives.

It needs our understanding."

#AnimalBehavior
#WildlifeConservation
#EndangeredSpecies
#SaveThePlanet

Male white-spotted pufferfish sculpt enormous geometric circles into the seafloor to attract a mate — all with fins, sand, and an unreasonable commitment to curb appeal.

#AnimalBehavior #OceanLife #Nature #RaiseGoodRuckus

#NaturePhotography #BirdPhotography #Birds #WildlifePhotography #Wildlife #Nature #BirdWatching #NatureLovers #BirdLife #AnimalBehavior #NaturePhoto #WildlifePhoto #Conservation #NatureCommunity #OutdoorPhotography

ICYMI: No fighting doesn't mean they're friends — watch for these subtle signs #PetCare #AnimalBehavior

🐬 In quiet water, a dolphin nudges a pufferfish, and the moment can look playful. What follows remains uncertain. Chemistry may matter, while play and exploration remain plausible.

The quieter question continues:
www.theperpetuallycurious.org/chemical-enc...

#AnimalBehavior #ChemicalEcology

"Some past research..suggests left-pawed #dogs r more #pessimistic than those that use their right paw more or hv no pref, called #ambilateral (like when humans are #ambidextrous), wrote Deborah Wells, an #AnimalBehavior researcher": buff.ly/QLVU8Oa

via @smithsonianmag.bsky.social
#dog #research

These suggest that artificial selection for aggression may alter how these fish process touch, making contact a potential stressor.

#FishWelfare #BettaSplendens #AnimalBehavior #FishBehavior #AnimalWelfare #StressResearch #Aquaculture #OrnamentalFish #SensoryEnrichment

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#Cow #InnerMongolia #AnimalBehavior #Physics

What are badgers doing in September?

As autumn arrives, badgers prepare for colder months by gathering bedding materials like grass, leaves, and moss to warm their setts.

#BadgerWatch #WildlifeActivity #AnimalBehavior #SeptemberNature

Camera traps in Senegal filmed wild chimpanzees passing tools to one another 33 times, most often to infants, and in all but one case the recipient made the first move. #Primatology #Chimpanzees #AnimalBehavior www.primatology.net/p/wild-chimp...

🐾 The effect of heat waves on pill bug Armadillidium vulgare risk-taking strategies.
📎 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-026-05968-5

🇬🇧 This study investigates how heat waves and prior thermal experience alter risk-taking strategies in pil...

#AnimalCognition #Ethology #AnimalBehavior

🐾 From the "sticker" to the "seed" slide: Challenges testing concurrent tooling in Goffin's cockatoos
📎 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2026.107787

🇬🇧 This study investigates the capacity of Goffin's cockatoos to use tools concurrently...

#AnimalCognition #Ethology #AnimalBehavior

I want you to notice what doesn’t happen here. #badgers #Underestimating #animalbehavior

Harsh volcanic islands shape the Galapagos Mockingbird's complex social hierarchies, proving survival depends on teamwork! Discover how unpredictable environments drive social evolution.

#GalapagosMockingbird #AnimalBehavior #WildernessWire
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🐾 Multimodal fertility cues in chimpanzees: how body odours complement sexual swellings.
📎 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026-70687-z

🇬🇧 Study analyzing how chimpanzees use a combination of visual swellings and subtle changes in body od...

#AnimalCognition #Ethology #AnimalBehavior

Meetings with other folks who study animal behavior are great, because no one cares when the pets insist on joining!

#AnimalBehavior #CatsOfBsky #Scientist

This Fish Is Carrying Hundreds of Eggs in Its Mouth! 😳🐟

This yellowhead jawfish isn't eating —
it's protecting its babies.

#YellowheadJawfish #Jawfish #MarineLife #OceanLife #Wildlife #AnimalBehavior #Underwater #Nature #ocean

Mobile insect-flushing service in full operation! 🪰🦏 A White Rhino navigating the savanna while a lineup of Silverbirds uses its back as an elevated launchpad to hunt flushed bugs.

#WildlifePhotography #Kenya #WhiteRhino #Silverbirds #AnimalBehavior […]

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