Animals often get labeled as either predators or prey. But in the wild, survival isn’t always a one-animal job. Some species form partnerships that help them find food, avoid danger, or raise young.
A new study suggests chimpanzees don't just perform self-care—in some cases, they look out for each other. Elodie Freymann Chimpanzees use medicinal plants to perform first aid on others, according to ...
Superb starlings help care for the offspring of birds they are not related to. “To me, that sounds like friendship,” one scientist said. By Asher Elbein True friends, most people would agree, are ...
May 14 (UPI) --New research sheds light on how chimpanzees self-medicate wounds with plants and provide aid to other chimps. A new report published Tuesday in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and ...
Some animals, including chimpanzees, birds and elephants, are known to make and use tools, but examples among marine animals are limited. Sea otters use stones to break open shellfish and dolphins ...
Long before TikTok and probiotics, animals were teaching each other tips on feeling better, from swallowing leaves to get rid of parasites to using icebergs for exfoliation. In the early 2010s, ...
AI is reshaping countless aspects of life. But so far, its applications have focused mostly on our singular species, Homo sapiens. What if humans used AI to better understand the nonhuman beings with ...