Forget trash pandas… Welcome the garbage wolves! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. In Italy, wolves are taking back space – making human interactions more likely. Should we be scared? Ask Martina Lazzoroni and team at University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna. They compared urbanized and
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Who needs a compass? Get thee a pigeon! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Pigeons use the Earth’s magnetic field to navigate. So where do they keep the magnets? Ask Clivia Lisowski and team at the University of Bonn. They checked pigeons’ organs, for cells
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Can you teach a bee to play soccer? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Bees are known to be well organized. They’re expert team players! But can they solve problems on the fly? Enter Akshaye Bhambore and team at the University of Oulu. They built
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Staring contest? How about a scaring contest… with a crow! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Urban birds, like crows, tolerate us. But how do they FEEL about us? Ask Yuiko Suzuki and team from Keio University. They attached wireless sensors with gel pad electrodes
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Curse you, gas station sushi! Never again! *Blarf* This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Food avoidance is actually a learned behavior. And we’re not the only ones who do it. Yujie Wang and team from University of Bonn, studied this in fruit flies. They fed
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Do sharks have friends? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Since sharks live DEEP under the ocean, we aren’t sure! Enter Natasha Marosi and team from the University of Exeter. They performed nearly five-HUNDRED dives in Fiji to observe about two-hundred bull sharks. They tracked social
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Housecats and wild cats speak different languages? You gotta be KITTEN me! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. It’s no secret our pet cats have distinct purrrr-sonalities. But how do they differ from wild cats, like cheetahs or tigers? Enter Danilo Russo and team from
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“BEE don’t kill my vibe! BEE don’t kill my vibe!” This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. A good mood is contagious, right? Is that what makes us human? Or is that what makes us… bees?! Enter Jose Romero-Gonzalez and team at Southern Medical University. They
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Uh-oh! Follow request from Mom – should you accept? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Remember when Mom used to be cool? Hyenas do! Like humans, hyenas are social creatures – pack animals actually. Also like humans, they can use their parents’ social standing for
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In your face! Times eight! Ouch! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science saying… Question: Who’s crueler than a kid playing dodgeball? Answer: an octopus!! Peter Godfrey-Smith and the University of Sydney watched the violence from the sidelines. They analyzed twenty hours of octopus footage! These
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