Guinea pigs are rodents. The fossil record of rodent-like animals begins about 65 million years ago, in the Paleocene, shortly after the extinction of the non-avian dinosaurs. About 35 million years ago, rodents diversified into the ancestors of beavers, the dormouse, squirrels, and other mod...
Evolving communicative complexity: insights from rodents and beyond. Social living goes hand in hand with communication, but the details of this relationship are rarely simple. Complex communication may be described by attri... Pollard, K. A,Blumstein, D. T - 《Philosophical Transactions of the ...
But if they disappeared tomorrow, we might actually miss them. There are over 3,000 species of mosquitoes on Earth, all of which are food to birds, bats, frogs, and other animals. No more mosquitoes means these creatures and the animals t...
Gibbons are often seen as the archetype of a harmonious nuclear family - they live in long-term bonded pairs with their offspring and sing together in the morning. This is all a bit too perfect to be true however. Like many of the animals on this list “cheating” and “divorce” are ...
They also have special bacteri a in their guts that help break down fiber.Though capybaras are the happiest in the wild, they are 83. e trained. Zookeepers have taught these gentle rodents to walk onto scales to be weighed, go into crates and sit still for physical exams. How do they...
FEMALE PROFESSOR: For today's discussion, we'll review the case study on how some animals have behaviorally adapted to their environments.Now, you had to read about two animal species: the eastern marmot and the Olympic marmot. Marmots are rodents...they're large ground squirrels about the ...
Zoonotic diseases, which pass from animals to humans, kill millions of people every year. Where do they come from and how can we avoid them?
exclusion zone may be less than the threat posed by humans outside of it. Examples of animals seen within the zone include Przewalski's horses,wolves, badgers, swans, moose, elk, turtles, deer, foxes,beavers, boars, bison, mink, hares, otters, lynx, eagles, rodents, storks, bats, and ...
Research on endocrinological correlates of aggression in laboratory animals is implicitly motivated by an expectation that the results of such studies may be applicable to human aggression as well. Research with a focus on the stimulus antecedents of aggression, its response characteristics, and its out...
These solitary animals are known for their stealth and strength, particularly their powerful bite, which can pierce the skulls and shells of their prey — and we don't just mean when they're chowing down on their meals. This bite force allows them to employ a unique killing method among bi...