Candid Camera Reveals More Tool Use in Crows

 Using motion sensitive cameras in the wild British researchers document tool use by crows as previously demonstrated in the laboratory and elsewhere:

http://tinyurl.com/y99uc2f

The Intelligence of Dolphins

 Friday video: Hunting Strategy of Bottlenose Dolphins

One of the World's Critical Questions...

"Why do pigeons walk with bobbing heads?" :

http://tinyurl.com/yel9uut

Just For Fun

Back-to-back videos this week:




(hat tip: Blog Around the Clock)

Amazing Survival Mechanism

The Friday video: the incomparable David Attenborough narrates the amazing evolved escape tactic of the pebble toad:

Geeks Win!

Bird nerds get the chicks:

In this recent research the 'brainy-est' Australian bowerbirds were found to win more lovemaking opportunities than their less keen counterparts:

http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2009/821/1

Monkey Business

Monkeys just wanna have fun in this week's Friday video:

Ticklish Rats... You Betcha

For the Friday video, giggling rats here:

Animal Feelings

NY Times piece on scientific evidence for animals feeling 'regret' (...not that any pet owners required scientific evidence) :

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/02/science/02tier.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss

Amazing Cuttlefish

Today, a Friday video two-fer :

Remarkable cuttlefish swallows octopus here:




and amazing cuttlefish camouflage here: