For more than 100 years, it was widely assumed that the majority of female birds were sexually monogamous. Charles Darwin himself seems to have started that little rumor. In 1871’s The Descent of Man, ...

Oxford and Miami is home to multiple clubs dedicated to building habiatat for  wildlife to bolster local conservation efforts ...

Picture writing the numbers 1 to 5 in a horizontal line, from smallest to largest. Where did you put 1? If you placed 1 on ...

Recent studies reveal bees' proclivity to organize numbers from left to right, similar to humans. This phenomenon, known as ...

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After bees had learned to associate number (three ... to right exists in several very different animal groups: insects, birds and apes. Perhaps evolution has landed on this preference as an ...