When biologists study cooperation in animals, they usually offer just a single task at a time. But what happens when animals can choose among several opportunities to work together? Biologists at ...

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Ambika Kamath and Melina Packer are working to overturn biased, outdated views in biology When Ambika Kamath was a graduate student in evolutionary biology at Harvard University, she knew one thing ...

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They’re agile on land. Intelligent in behavior. And…they can gallop like a horse? Learn what makes Cuban crocodiles so extraordinary. Mike Bock Invisible beneath the murky water, a hunter waits with ...

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I've been studying various aspects of animal behavior, especially in mammals, for many decades and have always felt uneasy about how cultural values have limited our true understanding of the dynamics ...