Bumblebees outwit robotic spiders

BBC News, September 4, 2008

Scientists have found that bumblebees learn from their "near-death" encounters with crab spiders and adapt their future foraging strategies. Read more...

The cat and bear best friends who simply can't bear to be apart

Best friends Muschi the cat and Maeuschen the bear, are so close that zookeepers in Berlin have had to reunite the pair after they were separated. Read more...

Crow Intelligence

Here you can see why crow is supposed to be one of the smartest species in the planet.

A crow in captivity is making a tool:



In Japan, crows have found a way to eat nuts, that they normally can't:

Magpie 'can recognise reflection'

BBC News, August 19, 2008

Magpies can recognise themselves in a mirror, scientists have found - the first time self-recognition has been observed in a non-mammal.
Until relatively recently, humans were thought to be uniquely self-aware. Read more...

Wild dolphins tail-walk on water

BBC News, August 19, 2008

A wild dolphin is apparently teaching other members of her group to walk on their tails, a behaviour usually seen only after training in captivity.
The tail-walking group lives along the south Australian coast near Adelaide. One of them spent a short time after illness in a dolphinarium 20 years ago and may have picked up the trick there. Read more...

Military penguin becomes a 'Sir'

BBC News, August 15, 2008

A penguin who was previously made a Colonel-in-Chief of the Norwegian Army has been knighted at Edinburgh Zoo. Penguin Nils Olav has been an honorary member and mascot of the Norwegian King's Guard since the 1972. Over the years, he has been promoted through the ranks after being adopted by Royal Guard who visited the zoo. Read more...

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