Scientific Reports - Body awareness in Goffin’s cockatoos (Cacatua goffiniana)

Ticklishness is a familiar but poorly understood experience. Xiong and Kilteni show that ticklishness is culturally shared and follows a distinct bodily topography. They evaluate different theories on...

Predation increases close to habitat edges, but how animals cope with local predation variations remained poorly studied. In a mosaic landscape, lapwings were compensating for increased nest predatio...

The Great Spotted Woodpecker (Dendrocopos major, MAJ) and the Middle Spotted Woodpecker (Dendrocoptes medius, MED) are ecologically similar species that co-occur in Central Europe and may compete for ...

Tool use research has long made the distinction between tool using that is considered learned and flexible, and that which appears to be instinctive and stereotyped. However, animals with an inherite...

Shorebirds experience high rates of nest predation due to their ground-nesting, leading to diverse antipredator behaviors to mitigate this risk. Accurate predator recognition enables birds to adjust t...