13-01-29 Japanese researchers show for the first time that primates modify their body movements to be in tune with others, just like humans do. Humans unconsciously modify their movements to be in synchrony with their peers. For example, we adapt our pace to...

12-11-23 Dogs learning to associate words with objects form these associations in different ways than humans do, according to research published November 21 in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Emile van der Zee and colleagues from the University of Lincol...

12-11-21 Animals, including humans, actively select the gut microbes that are the best partners and nurture them with nutritious secretions（分泌物） , suggests a new study led by Oxford University, and published November 20 in the open-access journal PLOS B...

12-11-20 Chimpanzees and orangutans can experience a mid-life crisis just like humans, a study suggests. This is the finding from a new study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, that set out to test the theory that the pattern...

12-11-15 Wondering if your caged hamster（仓鼠） gets bored? It's highly likely if the critter（生物，家畜） has nothing to do all day. Those are the findings of University of Guelph researchers in the first research study to empirically（以经验为主地） demo...

12-11-08 On the south coast of South Africa, scientists have found evidence for an advanced stone age technology dated to 71,000 years ago at Pinnacle Point near Mossel Bay. This technology, allowing projectiles（落弹数） to be thrown at greater distance and...

12-10-23 For the first time, researchers have been able to show by acoustic analysis that whales -- or at least one very special white whale -- can imitate the voices of humans. That's a surprise, because whales typically produce sounds in a manner that is w...

12-10-11 US researchers say that mice may have the ability to learn songs based on the sounds they hear. 美国研究人员称，老鼠有根据它们听到的声音学习歌曲的能力。 They found that when male mice were housed together they learned to match the pitch of their son...

12-09-12 Cross a crow（乌鸦） and it'll remember you for years. Crows and humans share the ability to recognize faces and associate them with negative, as well as positive, feelings. The way the brain activates during that process is something the two specie...

12-08-20 Research into the genetic factors behind certain disease mechanisms, illness progression and response to new drugs is frequently carried out using tiny multi-cellular animals such as nematodes（线虫） , fruit flies or zebra fish. Often, progress rel...