Crabs play. They can also sense pain when hurt.

Elephant returns a little kid’s shoe that fell into its enclosure.. 🥺

Test for personality and temperament assessment of cats is now available.

EU presented - for the first time - legislation for the protection of cats and dogs.

In experiments, bumblebees have shown a level of collective intelligence that scientists thought to be unique to humans. sciencealert.com/bees-reveal-a-…

"The friendliest, most gentle animals are some of the most beloved — but unfortunately, they’re also some of the most likely to be held captive and abused by humans for industrial purposes." sentientmedia.org/friendliest-an… lähteestä Sentient

Muistatko, milloin liityit X:ään? Minä muistan! #XMerkkipäiväni No, taisin silloin liittyä Twitteriin. Työnantaja kannusti ja tarjosi asiasta kurssipäivän.

If you are stressed, your dog may get stressed, too. "Dogs experience emotional contagion from the smell of human stress, leading them to make more 'pessimistic' choices, new research finds." phys.org/news/2024-07-h…

Many mammals use facial expressions for communication. "A new study shows chickens use flushed skin and feather fluffing to display different emotions, levels of excitement." phys.org/news/2024-07-c…

New study: "Nonhuman great apes have been claimed to be unable to learn human words ... We recovered original footage of two enculturated chimpanzees uttering the word “mama” and subjected recordings to phonetic analysis."  nature.com/articles/s4159…

New study: "Episodic memory is the memory of our individual experiences. ... We show that bats remember how much time (when) passed since they visited a specific tree (what) at a specific location (where), ...” focusingonwildlife.com/news/fruit-bat…

New "study provides evidence that lemurs can integrate sensory information with ecological and social knowledge, which demonstrates their ability to consider multiple aspects of a problem" phys.org/news/2024-08-l…

Study reveals: "...pet dogs can be successfully taught by their owners to associate words recorded onto soundboard buttons to their out comes in the real world ..." phys.org/news/2024-08-d…

New study gives "evidence that wild African elephants address one another with individually specific calls, probably without relying on imitation of the receiver." nature.com/articles/s4155…

Cats are cats

Scientifically confirmed: cats can quickly form picture-word associations. Like dogs. nature.com/articles/s4159…

Confirmed: "Cats are (almost) liquid!—Cats selectively rely on body size awareness when negotiating short openings" cell.com/iscience/fullt…

Dog study results: "...soundboard use by dogs cannot be explained by random pressing, and that certain two-button concept combinations appear more often than expected..." nature.com/articles/s4159…

New study: "Researchers have discovered that microbes influence brain development starting before birth, not just after a baby is born." neurosciencenews.com/microbes-birth…

Forgot the last one.