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Meerkat clans perform a ‘war dance’ to frighten opponents and protect their territory, a new study has found. By observing groups of these notoriously cute creatures for 11 years, British researchers noticed that more than half of interactions with rival groups led to chasing or the war dance. The unusual move involves each meerkat displaying … Read more

Hey hey we’re the monkeys! Chimps make their own rock music by throwing stones at trees to create deep bass notes, scientists claim Chimps throw rocks at specific trees to create the loudest bass sound possible   They prefer trees that do not muffle sound and found buttress roots were best Choosing the right tree allows the … Read more

Dogs process numbers in a similar way to humans, with brain scans revealing that both man and his best friend use the so-called parietotemporal cortex to count. Researchers in the US are the first to train dogs to voluntarily enter a brain scanner and remain still while their neural responses were recorded. The findings add … Read more

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey snubs Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg by going out of his way to publicly unfollow fellow tech mogul in a tweet Twitter head Jack Dorsey publicly unfollowed Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg  Dorsey appears to have made efforts to ensure the unfollow was noticed In a response to Mashable Twitter responded with a goat … Read more

Cattle are twice as likely to catch tuberculosis from other cattle than they are from badgers according to new study into the make up and spread of the TB virus. Researchers from the University of Edinburgh studied the genome of bovine tuberculosis in cows and badgers over a 15-year period in Gloucestershire. The team analysed … Read more

Mysterious ‘vanishing stars’ in the night sky that flicker on and off could be ‘interstellar communication lasers’, study claims Blinking lights in the night sky are a bizarre and unexplained phenomenon   Conventional theories state that this should not be physically possible  The most likely explanation are ‘natural, if extreme, astrophysical sources’ But researchers are not ruling out … Read more

Koalas can run like rabbits at up to 6mph but prefer to spend their time up trees where they climb like monkeys Koalas are well known for hanging out up trees like their primate counterparts Although they spread across the globe, primates never made it to Australia It was not clear if koalas, taking their … Read more