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Animal behaviour

January 2026

  • A Dingo scavenging on a beach

    Killing of K’gari dingoes in wake of backpacker’s death could create ‘extinction vortex’, expert says

  • Geoffroy’s spider monkeys sitting in a tree

    Spider monkeys found to share ‘insider knowledge’ to help locate best food

  • A cow using a stick to scratch herself

    Science Weekly
    How positivity affects health, the rise of scabies and bovine intelligence – podcast

    Podcast21:20
  • A cow with a stick in its mouth scratching its own back

    Back-scratching bovine leads scientists to reassess intelligence of cows

  • Horses can smell fear in humans, researchers say

  • Primates’ same-sex sexual behaviour ‘may reinforce bonds amid environmental stress’

  • The pet I'll never forget
    The pet I’ll never forget: Dory the 10kg rabbit, who saved me from a diabetic coma

  • ‘Gifted learner dogs’ can learn words by eavesdropping, study says

  • Australian climate and environment in focus
    Are crabs animals and should we experiment on monkeys? Major review of Australia’s research code to mull tough questions

December 2025

  • Prawns for sale at the Sydney fish market

    Australian climate and environment in focus
    Do prawns feel pain? Why scientists are urging a rethink of Australia’s favoured festive food

  • A pod of orcas off the coast of British Columbia, Canada, one spouting mist from its blowhole

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Orcas team up with dolphins to hunt salmon, study finds

November 2025

  • Kylies beach in the Crowdy Bay national park

    Beaches reopen after bull shark kills Swiss tourist with police reviewing GoPro footage from scene

    Shark attacked 25-year-old woman first then her partner who ‘has done everything he could to get them both into shore,’ authorities say
  • red jelly

    Brief letters
    Kids have a wobble in the face of rabbit jelly

    Brief letters: Sweet nothings | Rabbit eyes | Savile Row | Gull greed | Chips are down | Word wheel
  • A herring gull

    Worth a shout? Yelling is best way to deter gulls, UK study suggests

    Animal behaviourists tested 61 gulls in Cornwall to find most effective method of countering feathery threat

October 2025

  • A 8-metre juvenile whale, found wrapped in netting near Coledale beach, is believed to have drowned after becoming entangled while migrating south to Antarctica

    Australian climate and environment in focus
    Humpback whale calf entangled in shark nets dies off NSW coast – video

    Video0:44
  • Two large Achatina snails on green moss.

    Notes and queries
    Readers reply: Why aren’t more animals hermaphrodites?

  • A hypnale hypnale pit viper with its mouth open about to bite a gel target.

    Gone in 60 milliseconds: dramatic slow-motion snake bites reveal clues about how fangs and venom kill prey

  • Pair of garden snails mating

    Notes and queries
    Why aren’t more animals hermaphrodites?

  • Grisly recording reveals bat catching, killing and eating robin mid-flight

  • ‘Ball junkie’: some dogs show signs of addiction, study finds

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