7 stories tagged animal-behavior, newest first.
![Screenshot of youtube.com: Woman who rescued injured crow keeps getting 'thank-you gifts' from birds [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2026/10/16/55d51130-eedf-4ef7-94ba-29af22cff19a.jpg)
802 points by johnnyApplePRNG | 236 comments
CTV News YouTube video about a Vancouver woman who rescued an injured crow and now regularly receives 'thank-you gifts' from crows.
110 points by bushwart | 53 comments
Open-access 2020 Scientific Reports paper studying how cats' slow-blink eye narrowing movements function in communication with humans.
416 points by neversaydie | 253 comments
BBC News article reporting researchers' findings that a chimpanzee community in Uganda has split and been locked in a years-long violent 'civil war'.
437 points by layer8 | 125 comments
Frontiers news article about a hawk that learned to use traffic signals and the resulting queues of cars to hunt prey more successfully in an urban setting.
363 points by ada1981 | 321 comments
A Substack essay explaining how observations of captive wolves spawned the 'alpha' dominance myth and how it shaped cultural ideas about power and masculinity.
423 points by hhs | 138 comments
University of Würzburg news article reporting that Matabele ants detect infected wounds in nestmates and treat them with antibiotic secretions.
439 points by tosh | 200 comments
Northeastern Global News article on research showing pet parrots learned to make video calls to other parrots and formed friendships.