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Each cell in the comb of a bee hive can hold honey or a single developing bee. Image courtesy Stock.xchng Social bees, on the other hand, have a different approach to raising young. While a female solitary bee lays only a few eggs in her lifetime, a queen honeybee lays thousands. ...
example of evolutionary convergence (similar traits that evolve independently,like wings in bats and birds). The evolution of walking in fish is rare though. There are more than 30,000 species of fish as we know them today (not in the evolutionary sense), of which only a handful can “...
Researchers have also used are using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to watch people's brains when they look at a photograph of their object of affection. According to Fisher, what they see in those scans during that "crazed, can't-think-of-anything-but stage of romance" — th...
The social and family interactions of wild chimpanzees have been the focus of Dame Jane Goodall’s research for decades. Her understanding of animal behavior prompted the English primatologist to see a lesson for human communities as well: “Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue...
Roger Webb, Executive Producer: "We film new behaviour with chimpanzees, where they're able to sniff out honey from underground. With the troop that we filmed, only the alpha male seems really to have got his head around how to do it. We have got this adorable scene where he's picking...
where the animals interact socially but can readily enter and leave the group. A society is different. It is defined by the capacity of its members to distinguish one another from outsiders, and reject outsiders on that basis. For most animals, however, surprisingly few studies have been done...
Our closest relatives are the great apes of the family Hominidae. Orangutans, chimpanzees, gorillas, and bonobos belong to this family. Humans share 98.8% of their DNA with bonobos and chimpanzees, while gorillas and humans have 98.4% of the same DNA. However, the differences in DNA increase...
Using some easily observed traits, explain how to distinguish between these arthropods: spiders, insects, millipedes, centipedes. What is the main characteristic that is common in amphibians but not in mammals? How do you tell the difference between apes, baboons, chimpanzees, gorillas and monkeys...