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Healthy gypsy moth caterpillar on a leaf.

Viral Gene alters Bug Behaviour

... a virus to manipulate its insect host's behaviour for its own benefit. Some pathogens, such as baculoviruses, use ... virus to manipulate its insect host’s behaviour for its own benefit... Viral Gene alters Bug Behaviour ...

The Superb Blue Fairy Wren is a small Australian Passerine of the fammily maluridae

Password Passed Down Before Hatching

... the egg. t's important for a Fairy-wren to recognise its own young because they are subject to parasitism by cuckoos - ... are added to the nest at a later stage than the wren's own eggs, they are therefore exposed to fewer incubation ...

Football Crowd at Cardiff City Stadium

What chanting does to crowds

... the same, we're turning up the dial in that part of our own identity that's connected with this larger group.  That ... this one team of supporters, you're turning down their own personal responsibility.  So, people feel ...

A woman wearing a facemask.

How quickly can populations evolve to combat disease spread?

... can evolved pro-social traits be shed to achieve nature's own equivalent of social distancing? Speaking with Chris ...

Bottlenose Dolphin

Dolphins form largest alliance ever found

... cooperation, and that is something that we only see in our own society, so in humans. Will - Is there something about ...

A romantic kiss

Why do people kiss?

... them their gender.  We also asked them to rate their own attractiveness and past researchers found that even ...

Emergency light with an emergency exit pictogram

Crowd Psychology in an Emergency

... of individuals behaving individually in terms of their own individuality in the same place at the same time, but ...

Mind reading

Where is my mind?

... clinical emotional disorders. Our ability to control our own emotions depends on whether we believe that emotional ...

Second round of the French presidential election of 2007.

How Facebook alters Voting Behaviour

... it's not about people saying, "This is your obligation to own a Ferrari."  So, I do think that it may be the case that ...

orangutan ape

Is great apes' monkey business the origin of human humour?

... kind of behaviour and defining it and describing it as its own thing, we will encourage other people to look at it in a ...

HTC smart phone

Gleaning the mood of the nation

... a Smartphone and there are many people - actually, I don't own one (there's a confession)  so there are many people who ...