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Animal doctor: Some words for the whales

Roger Payne's album "Songs of the Humpback Whale." --S.V.M., West Palm Beach, Florida. Years ago, at an international conference of ethologists, I was one of the first to hear the late Dr. Payne's ...
Like many animals, parrots make sounds that suggest they are talking with each other, maybe even calling out to a specific ...
Germans are preparing a rescue operation for a sick humpback whale stranded off the Baltic Sea coast. The whale, nicknamed ...
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A KAIST research team has developed a quadrupedal robot control system that allows machines ...
Psychologist Zazie Todd makes the science of dog and cat behavior widely accessible and teaches pet guardians how to use ...