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HAMPSHIRE, United Kingdom (Reuters) — Vultures are synonymous with scavenging – feeding off the carcasses of other animals. Naturalists have long believed that many aspects of these species’ biology evolved to maximize the efficiency of this feeding behavior, and this seems to crucially include their vision which is specialized for scanning the ground while flying and keeping the sun out of their eyes while doing so. This has led to a troubling phenomenon: vultures are […]
by Mariëtte Le Roux PARIS, France (AFP) — A tropical fish can tell one human face from another despite lacking a brain section that homo sapiens and other “smart” animals use for this task, scientists said Tuesday. The astonishing ability was demonstrated in experiments with eight archerfish, a tropical species best known for spitting pressurised water jets to shoot prey out of the air. Instead of aiming at bugs, the sharpshooting fish were taught to […]
