Storytellers, news reporters, and historians who make metaphors to try to make sense of the way people behave might find this study inspirational. Especially if they make rank metaphors. The study is about cattle on their journey to being slaughtered “Cattle’s Social Rank Throughout the Transition from Rangeland to Fattening Affects Beef Quality,” Paola Soberanes-Oblea, […]
This week’s Feedback column (that I write) in New Scientist magazine has four segments. Here are bits of each of them: Intentional cattiness — When cats are forced to endure a crush of mass attention from an adoring public, do they continue to behave in their famous, endearing, imperious “cat-like” ways? Simona Cannas and her colleagues at the […]
Klunk and colleagues have, perhaps, taken the lead in assessing imperfect synchrony in animal displays. There is much to ponder in their new study: “Imperfect Synchrony in Animal Displays: Why Does It Occur and What Is the True Role of Leadership?” Daniela M. Perez, Cristian L. Klunk, and Sabrina B.L. Araujo, Philosophical Transactions of the […]
In this video, a person called “the Ostrich Whisperer” appears to display an intimate knowledge of how ostriches behave towards humans: One can wonder many things about the Ostrich Whisperer’s knowledge. One can wonder how it compares with the knowledge reported in the study “Courtship Behaviour of Ostriches (Struthio camelus) Towards Humans Under Farming […]