Working in the field of
animal behaviour means that around World Cup season it's hard to avoid being sent links to so - called «psychic» animals that predict the outcome of matches, such as Paul the octopus, Leon the porcupine and Anton the tamarin.
Not exact matches
Many of the bees simply stopped at the first feeder they encountered after the third landmark, even though this
meant that they were nowhere near the feeder on which they had been trained (
Animal Behaviour, vol 49, p 159).
«You don't observe natural wolf
behaviour in zoos, only in the wild, and you need to know where the
animals are when howling before you can really begin to try and discern
meanings.
«But simply observing tool use in the wild doesn't necessarily
mean that the
animal is cognitively sophisticated, as we don't know how the
behaviour developed.»
Following the loss of an
animal companion, owners reported a
mean of 4.8 ± 0.2
behaviour changes in their dogs and 4.5 ± 0.2 in their cats.
Those
animals that do not achieve the desired
behaviours are disposed of by violent
means.