Rats taught to drive tiny cars show much less stress, which could be good for our mental health November 3, 2019 If you teach a rat to drive a tiny car, it gives the rodent new-found independence which leads to lower levels of stress. Call… Continue Reading
Researchers figure out how flies stick that perfect upside down landing October 28, 2019 Nobody pays much attention to flies, except perhaps when swatting them. But a team of international researchers have watched them so closely that they… Continue Reading
Wild pigs are “ecological train wrecks” spreading across Canada: Researchers May 13, 2019 It’s a pig of a problem. Wild boars have spread across Canada farther than anyone previously thought. New research into the country’s wild pig… Continue Reading
Meatless Monday: Best way to combat jellyfish stings and it doesn’t involve pee October 29, 2018 More than 100 deaths a year are attributed to jellyfish stings making them one of the most dangerous critters in the sea. One treatment… Continue Reading
Birds sing because they have a unique voice box that no other animals have, scientists find October 10, 2018 The way birds sing is unlike any other sound animals make and scientists now know that this melodious call comes from a unique voice… Continue Reading
Freedom at last for 10 laboratory chimpanzees now home-sweet-home at Project Chimps September 4, 2018 For years, in some cases decades, the chimps lived in a research lab. They never knew life outdoors, or without being observed and prodded… Continue Reading
Meatless Monday: Fecal transplants help researchers gain better understanding of the guts of endangered koalas June 18, 2018 Koalas are picky eaters. They’re very selective about the species and the individual trees where they eat. They eat only eucalypt leaves. The problem… Continue Reading
Real Life Stranger Things: Giant, freaky tadpole is straight up sci-fi June 15, 2018 Earyn McGee is working on her doctorate at the University of Arizona studying “how lizard communities may be affected by stream drying which could… Continue Reading
Humane Society wants bill to re-home animal testing animals, Johns Hopkins doesn’t February 18, 2018 The American Humane Socity is trying to pass a bill in the Senate that would require research facilities to find adoptive homes for dogs… Continue Reading
Do animals commit suicide? Disturbing anecdotes and now empirical evidence support it as real thing January 9, 2018 Psychology Today has just published a piece about evidence which could answer a disturbing question: do animals have the ability to rationalize their situation… Continue Reading
