"Males with limited access to females are more likely to display this behaviour." This makes the recorded intimacy between deer and snow monkey all the more crucial. Researchers say it's "a key element" in understanding more about the humans who try having sex with non-human animals. ...
Having said all of that, I do not believe that sex would be one of the top five things I would concern myself with in approaching training any particular animal. I think the variability in other genetic and environmental factors (temperament, drive, breeding, physical condition) renders the ...
more non-breeding Eurasian griffon vultures made these kinds of movements as they were not attached to reproductive tasks. Very interestingly, these movements involved more females than males, something very evident
A deep-sea octopus with very warty skin. Credit: (c) Field Museum, John Weinstein Sometimes when animals look different from each other, scientists can be tempted to jump the gun and declare them separate species—especially in the deep sea, where very little is known about anim...
Humans adopt unrelated individuals without pre-existing social relationships, and after acquiring high mobility between regions, it has become more common to adopt cross-culturally24,25. Adoption beyond one’s own social group is extremely rare in other group-living animals, especially in non-human ...
We Animals/The Ghosts in Our Machine Live Export Wikicommons/Tom Jervis Each year, millions of live animals are transported thousands of miles for the purpose of slaughter or breeding. The animals endure long arduous journeys that often take days, weeks or even longer on trucks and/or s...
Normally, house mice live for 12 to 18 months in the wild, but in captivity, they can live between 2 and 5 years if living conditions are quite good. These mice have limited functional defensive mechanisms, making them prey for various animals. They carefully choose their breeding locations ...
They adore social interaction with humans, and their curiosity makes them rather friendly towards strangers. It’s common for the Havana Brown to befriend other animals. What’s more, these kitties are so interactive that they always want to be included in their owners’ everyday activities. ...
Large-tailed Han sheep have the largest and fattiest tail of any Chinese sheep breed, characterized by being long, broad, and fat tail with a thin, twisted end turned upwards between two lobes and a broad base. Altay sheep 1National Center for Molecular Genetics and Breeding of Animals, ...
But there is a price to pay for those advantages. Self-fertilizing hermaphrodites don't endow their offspring with the genetic diversity that come from male-female breeding and that benefits progeny in the long run. Another disadvantage of their self-service sex life is that for hermaphrodites,...