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Baby Dolphin Survival Depends on Mom’s Friends
For dolphin mothers, successful parenting is as much a matter of having good friends as it is good genes. The findings underscore the importance of community to dolphin life, and perhaps to animals in...
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Yellow-Bellied Marmots May Inherit Social Victimization
An unusual study of an animal social network suggests that ending up as the butt of unfriendly interactions could be in part inherited. The study, in yellow-bellied marmots, gives the first look beyond...
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Chimps and Dolphins Share Cultural Similarities
Despite being separated by 95 million years of evolution and utterly different environments, female chimpanzees and dolphins have a whole lot in common. They’re the bedrock of family life, hardworking...
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Alpha-Baboon Benefits Come at Stressful Cost
If you’re a baboon, being in charge gives you a lot of advantages: you have better access to food, you get more action from the ladies, and your kids tend to grow faster and live longer. Low-rankers,...
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Happy Words Trump Negativity in the English Language
A massive language study, spanning Google Books, Twitter, popular songs lyrics and The New York Times, has found that English tends to look on the bright side of things. Positive words outnumber the...
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Robot Study of ‘Cocktail Party Problem’ Hints at Human Hearing Glitch
To understand the person talking to you in a noisy room, you've got to filter out all of the conversations, clinking glass, and other noises in the background. Fortunately, our brains manage the task...
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