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13 Jun 2011
Australian superb fairy-wrens learn how to recognise threats to their species through social learning. Research from the ANU has found the first direct...
19 May 2011
Bees remember landmarks and read information from the sky to find their way home from an amazing 11 kilometres away and over several days’ travel, a new study...
2 May 2011
The baffling question of why some animals help raise offspring which aren't their own is closer to being answered, thanks to new research from The...
15 Apr 2011
A study from The Australian National University has revealed for the first time how an animal sees and responds to predatory attacks in its natural environment.
9 Feb 2011
Babies crying with hunger may attract annoyed looks from bystanders, but in the bird world noisily crying nestlings are likely to pay the ultimate price,...
13 Jan 2011
Australian cuckoo birds have taken a new evolutionary step - mimicking the colour of their host young to avoid certain death, according to a study by...
12 Nov 2010
DNA mutation rates are the deciding factor in the battle of the birds, which sees songbird species disproportionately outnumbering other bird orders, according...
4 Nov 2009
Male Fiddler Crabs will quite happily protect a female neighbour, but do so partly in exchange for sex, according to a new study from The Australian National...
1 Jun 2007
Paired female and male Australian magpie-larks, Grallina cyanoleuca, can sing alone or in duets in which individuals alternate notes. The responding bird times...