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Category: Animal Communication

Wild Orangutan Offers Helping Hand to Man Stuck in Mud

Photographer captures an orangutan trying to help a human.

The Secret to Getting your Cat to be More Affectionate: Study

New research from Nottingham Trent University has found the key to getting your cat’s affection.

Animal Communication, human-animal relationships, Study reveals how to get your cat to be more affectionate

Kitty Pain App

An animal health technology company has developed an app that uses the phone’s camera to tell whether a feline is feeling pain. 

Animal Communication, New app detects when cats are in pain

Clever Cockatoos use Social Learning to Open Garbage Cans

Scientists have now demonstrated that cockatoos learn from each other. 

animal cognition research, Animal Communication, Cockatoos learn from each other

The cat’s meow

Listen up, cat lovers!  Research analyzing 440 recordings of “meows emitted by cats in different contexts”. Weird, right? Meow!

Animal Communication, Cats meowing research, Research on cat vocalizations

Dogs and Jealousy

New research confirms dogs can–and do–express jealousy when their human family member interacts with rival dogs.

Dogs express jealousy

Clever Sperm Whales Outwit Human Predators

A recent study of 19th-century whalers’ logbooks shows that sperm whales rapidly learned new ways to avoid their predators’ harpoons. 

Sperm Whales learn ways to outwit human predators

Kangaroos Effectively Communicate with Humans, say Researchers

The results of a new study found that animals that have never been domesticated, such as kangaroos, can intentionally communicate with humans, challenging the notion that this behavior is usually restricted to domesticated animals like dogs, horses or goats.

Kangaroos can talk to humans

Rats More Helpful after Smelling Other Helpful Rats

The results of a new study have shown that a rat just has to smell another rat that is engaged in helpful behavior to increase their own helpfulness.

Rats more helpful when smelling other helpful rats, Rats respond to the Smell of Cooperation

Bat Songs, Bat Chatting and other Bat Culture-y Stuff

Researchers are in the midst of a new project called, “CULTSONG”, which studies animal culture and examines bat song dialects used for specific purposes such as territorial signalling and courtship.

animal communication and bats, bat chatting and bat songs studied

Rats Emotional Responses Revealed in Vocalizations

New research revealed that the vocalizations made by rats in response to tickling are an accurate reflection of their emotional experience and something which is easy to measure.

rats vocalize their emtional responses

Bats Rant and Argue–A Lot

Researchers conducting a scientific study on animal communication discover that bats argue and rant–a lot.

scientific research shows bats argue a lot

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