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Studies of animal territoriality are particularly hard to conduct, because territorial behavior exists across multiple levels of analysis, from the individual animal, to groups, to entire populations...
Welcome to the second installment of Animal Territoriality Week. Today, we’ll look at a case where differences in territory size can have implications for neuroanatomy.
Here are my Research Blogging Editor’s Selections for this week. Embodied cognition never ceases to amaze and entertain. Mo Costandi of Neurophilosophy has the latest – Tough and tender: How touch affects sex categorization...
It seems that everyone becomes an amateur animal behaviorist while walking their dogs. They notice that their dogs tend to pee on, well, just about everything, and infer that Fido is marking his territory...
The narrator laureate of the science world, David Attenborough, describes the birth of a baby grey kangaroo.
Here are my Research Blogging Editor’s Selections for this week. “Whether it’s a raised eyebrow or curl of the lip, we usually think of emotions as conveyed through facial expressions and body language,” writes BPS Research Digest’s Christian Jarrett...
Lots of animals are well aware that bigger means scarier. In stressful or aggressive situations, for example, the hair or fur of chimpanzees, rats, cats, and even humans stands up on end (in humans, given our lack of fur, this results in goose bumps) in an effort to dissuade a potential attack...
PsychBytes is an experiment: three recent findings in psychology, each explained in three paragraphs or less.
Here are my Research Blogging Editor’s Selections for this week: To start us off, a pair of killer posts by tag-teaming science-blogging super-duo Kate Clancy and Scicurious.
There is a small bit of land, only about a square kilometer, that has added a new wrinkle to the story of animal domestication. This bit of land located in Northern Jordan, just southeast of the Sea of Galilee near the banks of the Jordan River, is home to an archaeological site known as ‘Uyun [...]..
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