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I'm back! I hope you all enjoyed the guest posts while I was gone. In case you missed any, here they are:Learning from Domesticated FoxesWith Pets Like These, Who Needs People?What It Takes to be the Ocean's Top PredatorSeeing the Monkey in the MirrorLet's Educate Kids About AnimalsHere are a few from the first set of photos from the trip...
Editor's Note: While I'm on vacation, I've arranged a series of guest posts from other writers who routinely cover animal behavior and cognition. Today's post, about my favorite domesticated foxes, comes from The Dog Zombie who blogs at The Dog Zombie...
Editor's Note: While I'm on vacation, I've arranged a series of guest posts from other writers who routinely cover animal behavior and cognition. Today's post, about the benefits of having pets around, comes from Melanie Tennenbaum who blogs at PsySociety...
Editor's Note: While I'm on vacation, I've arranged a series of guest posts from other writers who routinely cover animal behavior and cognition. Today's post, about attack behavior and social communication in great white sharks, comes from David Manly, who blogs at The Definitive Host...
Editor's Note: While I'm on vacation, I've arranged a series of guest posts from other writers who routinely cover animal behavior and cognition. Today's post, about the controversial mirror self-recognition test in primates, comes from the blogger at Serious Monkey Business...
Editor's Note: While I'm on vacation, I've arranged a series of guest posts from other writers who routinely cover animal behavior and cognition. Today's post, about the benefits of exposing children to animals, comes from Lauren Reid who blogs at Phylogenetic Tree Hugger...
Humans, just like all other animals, face the same problem every day: how do we get around the world? I don't mean how do we walk, swim, crawl, or fly.
Welcome to new and old readers alike to The Thoughtful Animal , version 2.0!I'm extremely thrilled to be one of the inaugural bloggers on the new Scientific American Blogging Network ...
This weekend saw a trip to the boardwalk and beach in Santa Monica. There are often sailboats out on weekends, and I was hoping to get some good shots with my new telephoto zoom lens.
I’m on Google+. After a couple days of playing with it, I haven’t quite identified what it is for, or at least how I’m going to use it differently from twitter or facebook, but so far I am generally impressed – it’s easy, intuitive, and fast...
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