Turtle Embryos Communicate To
Synchronize Hatching!
Turtles communicate with their siblings while they are still in their shells, buried under the soil, in order to coordinate when they hatch! This is a complicated feat, since some eggs are laid low in the nest, where it’s cooler, and others are laid in the upper layers which are closer to the sun, so they develop at different rates. “The group environment of a nest strongly supports the development of adaptive communication mechanisms between siblings and the evolution of environmentally cued hatching.”
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How Owls Get So Wise!
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Shellfish Feel Pain
This is not surprising news to our regular readers, of course, but a recent experiment has proven what common sense already tells us is true - shellfish feel pain.
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Baby Elephant Loves The Beach!
Everyone loves the beach in Phuket, Thailand. Baby elephants are no different!
Wild Dolphins Give Humans Gifts!
On 23 occasions over the past few years, wild dolphins were observed giving gifts to humans in Australia. The gifts included eels, tuna, squid, an octopus and various fin fish - highly valued food sources for dolphins! (link)
BEST GANGNAM STYLE RENDITION EVER!
This cockatoo sings along & bops to Gangnam Style - and is clearly getting as thrilled with the track as the rest of us! (link)
Fairywrens Teach Their Eggs Secret Passwords!
Sometimes, cuckoos sneak their eggs into fairywren nests, allowing the cuckoos to relax while the fairywrens raise their chicks for them. So fairywrens teach their chicks a password - a unique note - while they’re still in the egg. Once born, the cuckoos have a hard time duplicating the code, so this helps the fairy wrens differentiate their chicks from the cuckoos. What’s more, the clever fairywrens even teach their mates and other helpers the password through the performance of a special song!
Great Apes Can Have A Midlife Crisis Too
A study of great apes in captivity shows that the animals’ sense of well-being bottoms out in middle age, before rebounding in old age. The survey covered four criteria: the animals’ overall mood; how much pleasure they got out of socializing; their success in achieving goals such as obtaining food and objects they desire; and how happy the keeper would be if he or she were that animal for a week.
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Hero Pig Rescues Baby Goat
This sweet pig jumps in to help a goat whose foot was stuck underwater.
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