Africa's smallest carnivore punishes members of the community that fought over food by grooming them less at the end of the day. Andrew Blok covered home energy, with a focus on solar, and navigated ...

Three adorable dwarf mongooses make one of their first excursions out of their den. The Southern dwarf mongooses were born in mid-September at the Tiergarten Schonbrunn zoo in Vienna, Austria. In the ...

Dwarf mongooses remember which groupmates have picked fights with others during the day and later shun the aggressors during pre-bedtime socializing sessions, according to new research. Management of ...

They include three boys in one litter and four puppies whose genders are as yet unknown in the latter litter. Zoo visitors can see the family in the Habitat Africa! The Savannah exhibit. These are the ...

Management of within-group conflict is a key feature of human lives and those of many social animals, with contestants known to adopt various strategies in the immediate aftermath to minimize costs.

Mongooses munch on snacks inside cardboard box play area at Saint Louis Zoo Dwarf mongoose pups Cyclone, Doppler, Nimbus and Radar enjoy a snack at the Saint Louis Zoo. The four pups dig in while ...

A research essay titled "Experimental evidence for delayed contingent cooperation among wild dwarf mongooses" by Drs. Julie Kern and Andrew Redford of the School of Biological Sciences at the UK's ...

Management of within-group conflict is a key feature of human lives and those of many social animals, with contestants known to adopt various strategies in the immediate aftermath to minimise costs.

(Phys.org)—A small team of researchers with members from the U.K. and Germany has found an example of a mammal that practices frequent incest. In their paper published in the journal Biology Letters, ...