Nature & Wildlife
Tool use isn’t unique to humans. Various species across the animal kingdom, including birds, insects and mammals, exhibit the behavior. For example, sea otters use stones to crack open shellfish, while crows modify twigs to probe for hidden prey—and even have been observed using cars to crack open nuts.
Nature & Wildlife
At the intersection of biology and psychology, there’s a tantalizing field of study called biomusicality, which looks at whether different species are capable of behaving in ways that show that they recognize aspects of music, including beat and rhythm. For example, female crested gibbons display jerky, almost robotic patterns of movement.
Nature & Wildlife
Feathers, hair and scales. While it might seem that there’s a lot of difference between these natural “coverings” on animals, they have more in common than you’d probably think. Despite their multitude of forms, all three of these vertebrate skin appendages share early developmental processes at the embryonic stage.
