Behavioral News

Posted May 12, 2008:

• Fruit Fly Avoidance Mechanism Could Lead To New Ways To Control Pain In Humans
• 'Early Birds' Adapt To Climate Change
• Fish Diet To Avoid Fights With Slightly Larger Rivals

Posted May 10, 2008:

• Surprising Discovery: Multicellular Response Is 'All For One'
• When Bears Steal Human Food, Mom's Not To Blame

Posted May 6, 2008:

• New Reason For Bee Hive Collapse: Ecologists Tease Out Private Lives Of Plants And Their Pollinators

Posted May 5, 2008:

• Birds Can Tell If You Are Watching Them -- Because They Are Watching You

Posted May 3, 2008:

• Roaring Bats: New Scientific Results Show Bats Emitting More Decibels Than A Rock Concert
• Young Songbirds Babble Before They Learn To Sing

Posted May 2, 2008:

• Male Seahorses Are Nature's Mr. Mom, Researchers Say

Posted May 1, 2008:

• You Just Move Like A Mouse, Or Do So Abnormally Like A Mutant Mouse

Posted April 29, 2008:

• Marriage Crises In Blue Tits Are Probably Caused By Other Females
• Critically Endangered Seabirds Not Finding Mates

Posted April 28, 2008:

• Birds Can Detect Predators Using Smell
• How Animals Identify Each Other: Insights Into How The Nervous System Processes Sensory Information

Posted April 25, 2008:

• Study Breaks Ground In Revealing How Neurons Generate Movement

Posted April 21, 2008:

• It's A Unisex Brain With Specific Signals That Trigger 'Male' Behavior, At Least In Flies

Posted April 14, 2008:

• Discovery Of Link In Mosquito Mating Mechanism Could Lead To New Attack On Dengue And Yellow Fever

Posted April 10, 2008:

• Playing Dead Works For Young FIre Ants Under Attack

Posted April 9, 2008:

• Negligent, Attentive Mouse Mothers Show Biological Differences
• Rats Can Discriminate Odors In Milliseconds

Posted April 3, 2008:

• Mouse Calls During Courtship Help Search For Emotion-controlling Genes

Posted April 2, 2008:

• Octopus Sex More Sophisticated Than Arm-wrestling

Posted March 31, 2008:

• Who's Bad? Chimps Figure It Out By Observation

Posted March 27, 2008:

• Mantis Shrimp Vision Reveals New Way That Animals Can See
• Salmonella Strains In Humans Distinct From Strains In Animals

Posted March 20, 2008:

• What Gets A Female's Attention, At Least A Songbird's

Posted March 19, 2008:

• Like Sweets? You're More Like A Fruit Fly Than You Think
• Mice Could Provide Clues To Autistic Behaviors, Study Suggests

Posted March 18, 2008:

• Fungi Can Tell Us About The Origin Of Sex Chromosomes

Posted March 16, 2008:

• Correct Levels Of Stress Hormones Boost Learning, Squirrel Study Suggests

Posted March 14, 2008:

• Bird Brains Suggest How Vocal Learning Evolved

Posted March 12, 2008:

• Which Came First, Social Dominance Or Big Brains? Wasps May Tell

Posted March 10, 2008:

• Complexity of Disease Phenotypes

Posted March 8, 2008:

• Can Moths Or Butterflies Remember What They Learned As Caterpillars?

Posted March 7, 2008:

• Mercury Threatens Next Generation Of Loons

Posted March 5, 2008:

• Mouse Model Tightly Matches Pediatric Tumor Syndrome, Will Speed Drug Hunt

Posted March 3, 2008:

• Hungry Sharks Take Strange Walks To Find Food

Posted February 29, 2008:

• Chimps May Have A 'Language-ready' Brain

Posted February 28, 2008:

• Zoologists Challenge Longstanding Theory That 'Eyespots' Mimic The Eyes Of Predators' Enemies

Posted February 23, 2008:

• First Chikungunya Animal Model Created

Posted February 19, 2008:

• Fruit Flies Show Surprising Sophistication In Locating Food Source

Posted February 14, 2008:

• Science, Not Romance, Controls Mating At Smithsonian's National Zoo

Posted February 13, 2008:

• Unique Mating Photos Of Wild Gorillas Face To Face

Posted February 12, 2008:

• Fast Learning Bumblebees Reap Greater Nectar Rewards

Posted February 5, 2008:

• Females Decide Whether Ambitious Males Float Or Flounder
• Why Don't Chimpanzees Like To Barter Food?

Posted February 3, 2008:

• Conspicuous Social Signaling Drives Evolution Of Chameleon Color Change

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