Africa's smallest carnivore punishes members of the community that fought over food by grooming them less at the end of the day. Andrew Blok covered home energy, with a focus on solar, and navigated ...

These social animals keep tabs on aggressive members of the group and groom them less after fights to punish them. A growl from the aggressor, followed by a hip-slam. High-pitched squeals of surrender ...

Management of within-group conflict is a key feature of human lives and those of many social animals, with contestants known to adopt various strategies in the immediate aftermath to minimise costs.

Three adorable dwarf mongooses make one of their first excursions out of their den. The Southern dwarf mongooses were born in mid-September at the Tiergarten Schonbrunn zoo in Vienna, Austria. In the ...

Communication plays a vital role in the social lives of many species and varies greatly in complexity. One possible way to increase communicative complexity is by combining signals into longer ...

Management of within-group conflict is a key feature of human lives and those of many social animals, with contestants known to adopt various strategies in the immediate aftermath to minimize costs.

They include three boys in one litter and four puppies whose genders are as yet unknown in the latter litter. Zoo visitors can see the family in the Habitat Africa! The Savannah exhibit. These are the ...

Animal offspring may survive better when their groups are in greater conflict with rival factions, new research has shown. Animal offspring may survive better when their groups are in greater conflict ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In many social species, group members form strong social bonds. Such strong bonds are well-known to generate long-term fitness benefits, but ...

A research essay titled "Experimental evidence for delayed contingent cooperation among wild dwarf mongooses" by Drs. Julie Kern and Andrew Redford of the School of Biological Sciences at the UK's ...

Dwarf mongooses remember which groupmates have picked fights with others during the day and later shun the aggressors during pre-bedtime socializing sessions, according to new research. Management of ...

(Phys.org)—A small team of researchers with members from the U.K. and Germany has found an example of a mammal that practices frequent incest. In their paper published in the journal Biology Letters, ...