Some fish can reduce their electrical signals to avoid detection.

Electric eels even briefly pause low-voltage signals before striking prey.

Underwater stealth technology has been around a lot longer than we have.

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❓ Have you ever observed queen ants foraging or feeding outdoors alongside their worker ants? Let us know in the comments.

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🐾 Contagious yawning is stronger in wolves than in dog-admixed wolves
📎 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10071-026-02086-w

🇬🇧 Study investigating contagious yawning and its variation in captive wolves versus dog-admixed wolves, revealing that s...

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🐾 Correction: Quantifying nonmnemonic strategies in two-alternative forced-choice delayed matching and nonmatching-to-p...
📎 https://doi.org/10.3758/s13420-026-00719-1

🇬🇧 Correction article quantifying non-mnemonic strategies in mice du...

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🐾 Correction: Simultaneous learning of directional and non-directional stimulus relations in baboons (Papio papio)
📎 https://doi.org/10.3758/s13420-026-00718-2

🇬🇧 Correction article detailing simultaneous learning of directional and non...

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🐾 Differential weighting of lion vocalizations and oxpecker alarm calls in giraffes
📎 https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arag099

🇬🇧 Study showing that giraffes differentially weight acoustic information from direct predator cues (lion roars...

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🐾 Links between color conspicuousness, territorial behavior, and steroids in a color polymorphic lizard
📎 https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arag105

🇬🇧 Field experiment investigating how color morphs in a lizard are perceived and used for s...

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🐾 Predator hunting modes induce varied selection pressures on prey personality
📎 https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arag097

🇬🇧 Study examining how different predator hunting strategies (ambush vs. active) influence survival and personality ...

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🐾 When orcas hit the rudder: what Iberian orca-boat interactions reveal about action explanations in animal cognition
📎 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10071-026-02104-x

🇬🇧 This article analyzes the cognitive interpretation of interactions bet...

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🐾 Epistemic rationality in chimpanzees
📎 https://doi.org/10.3758/s13420-026-00712-8

🇬🇧 New evidence shows that chimpanzees rationally update their beliefs when presented with new information, demonstrating a key form of epistemic ration...

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🐾 The choose-short and choose-long effects may depend on interval consistency and similarity
📎 https://doi.org/10.3758/s13420-026-00725-3

🇬🇧 Study examining how the structure of events during delays affects temporal discrimination perfo...

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🐾 Elephant gestural communication during agonistic interactions: repertoire, intentionality, and goals
📎 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10071-026-02108-7

🇬🇧 This study investigates intentional gestural communication in wild African elephants ...

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🐾 Effects of reward magnitude on rats' long-term spatial memory retention in the radial-arm maze
📎 https://doi.org/10.3758/s13420-026-00726-2

🇬🇧 Study examining whether reward magnitude influences long-term spatial memory retention in r...

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🐾 Attraction to water and polarization in dragonflies and damselflies along a light pollution gradient
📎 https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arag108

🇬🇧 Study investigating how dragonflies and damselflies perceive polarized light and water cu...

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🐾 Synchronous human-dolphin foraging increases fishing success despite prey unpredictability
📎 https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arag106

🇬🇧 This study examines how behavioral coordination between dolphins and human fishers influences forag...

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🐾 Stochastic Decision Policy Is Optimal Under Costly Control
📎 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.10.06.757200v1?rss=1

🇬🇧 This study investigates decision-making in macaques, demonstrating that stochastic policies can be opt...

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🐾 Current state of bioacoustics research of vocal repertoires
📎 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.10.06.756971v1?rss=1

🇬🇧 This review article analyzes the methodologies used to study vocal repertoires across 197 mammalian s...

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🐾 The "glue-gun ant" Lordomyrma azumai uses an adhesive thread secretion to immobilize opponents
📎 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.10.07.757171v1?rss=1

🇬🇧 The paper describes how the ant Lordomyrma azumai uses a protein s...

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French Bulldog Guarded Stray Cat's Kittens Before He Died
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https://nile1.com/french-bulldog-guarded-stray-cats-kittens-before-he-died/
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🐾 The effect of dominance rank on behavioural response to playback calls in ring-tailed lemurs (Lemur catta)
📎 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.10.11.758396v1?rss=1

🇬🇧 Playback experiments with free-ranging ring-tailed lem...

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