Animal Tracks

When culture and popular traditions blend with ethology, super fascinating folk traditions are born!

Can bears really throw rocks and ice to kill their prey? Let's find out.

Stirling I. and colleagues. "Do wild polar bears (Ursus maritimus) use tools when hunting walruses (Odobenus rosmarus)?", 2020. Artic.

Some time ago a SCIENTIFIC article came out in which it is reported how octopuses can hunt in groups, punishing their hunting companions.

Exaggeration or truth? Let's talk about..

•“Interspecific Communicative and Coordinated Hunting between Groupers and Giant Moray Eels in the Red Sea”, 2006. Redouan Bshary, Andrea Hohner, Karim Ait-el-Djoudi, Hans Fricke
• “Multi-species co-operative hunting behaviour in a remote Indian Ocean reef system, Marine and Freshwater”, 2020. Bayley & A. Rose
•Octopus punch fishes during collaborative interspecific hunting events”, 2021. Sampaio E., Seco M.C., Rosa R., Gingi S.

After having ascertained with the "Stupidity of the Octopus" that these organisms are great intelligent people, we are going to discover that they feel pain similar to that of humans!

"Behavioral and neurophysiological evidence suggest affective pain experience in octopus". Crook R.L., 2021.
"Evolution of mechanisms and behaviour important for pain". Waltersvand E.T., Amanda C. Williams A. C. de C, 2019.

It was a sunny day when there was a strange smell in the air, which caused a sense of lightheadedness and fear. It was chaos when large saber-jawed ants entered the colony to steal all the eggs and pupae. They had arrived there to enslave the offspring of the inhabitants.

Do ravens really hate it, or Is it a click bait title that my evil mind has come up with?
There is no doubt that corvids in general have cognitive and that they are capable of disposing, all situations experiencing different emotions. What past science has revealed is that crows and crows skillfully recognize human faces, and remember the wrongs these people have done to some members of the group.

"Social learning spreads knowledge about dangerous humans among American crows", 2011. Heather N. Cornell, John M. Marzluff and Shannon Pecoraro

An incredible travel in the primitive nature of the Komodo Island with the naturalist David Attenborough.