Domestication effect of reduced brain size is reverted when mink become feral Abstract. A typical consequence of breeding animal species for domestication is a reduction in relative brain size. When domesticated animals escape from c

Reversal of domestication in minks 🧠

Tarantulas may use learning and memory to search for food and locate their retreats Researchers have documented several cases of spatial orientation in tarantulas living both in trees and in underground burrows. Spatial orientation refers to the ability of an animal to understand where it is in three-dimensional space and how to navigate purposefully within its environment.

Tarantula navigation 🧠🕷️

Evidence of early #dog domestication 🐕

4 day workweek is the way to go

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Frontiers | The pain echo chamber: how barren environments amplify pain in captive animals Pain is not solely a function of tissue damage but can be strongly shaped by environmental context. Its perceived intensity, duration, and likelihood—the cor...

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Seals use whisker movement to follow underwater trails—an approach that could improve robotic sensing Seals are carnivorous marine mammals that are well adapted to hunting for fish underwater, where visibility is poor. In such conditions, seals rely on their highly sensitive whiskers to detect tiny wa...

#seals using their #whiskers
#behavior 🦭🧠

She's off to her 2nd round of chemo today! #dogs #pupper #cancersucks #osteosarcoma

microscopy images of a developing mouse spinal cord showing nuclei, actin, and membrane stains in rainbow coloring

Happy #FluorescenceFriday! This is a confocal 🔬 series of a developing 🐭 spinal cord showing nuclei, actin, and cellular membrane stains colored in 🌈 Microscopy by postdoc @christinaadaly.bsky.social 👩‍🔬 🧪

Donate to Help Róisín Complete Her Cancer Treatment, organized by Heather Sinnott Hello, my name is Heather and I live in Erie, PA. I am the proud owner of Ró… Heather Sinnott needs your support for Help Róisín Complete Her Cancer Treatment

help Roisin!

#dog #cancer #osteosarcoma

A picture of Fidaa's 3 daughters in their new clothes for Eid. They smile at the camera. Text overlay same as post

Yamen looks at the camera wearing his new clothes for Eid. He looks tired and sad.

These are my kids today on Eid. 😅They were really happy and excited, but Yamen felt a bit sad. There was other clothes he really wanted for Eid, but I honestly couldn’t afford to buy it for him. He spent part of the day upset and crying and didn’t want to go out and celebrate like his siblings. I tried my best to comfort him and make him feel better😅

A picture of Yamen curled up on a mattress with his back to the camera

‼️‼️Mar 20 Fidaa update:

✅ 💌 TYSM to Anon x3 for an AMAZING $168 in donations!

It's Eid & the kids are looking so sweet in their new clothes. Yamen struggled a bit today but he seems okay now.

This is what your donations provided 🥹

$168/$200 USD 💊

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✅ by Molly Shah

#SaveFidaa

Don’t forget the people of Gaza 🍊❤️‍🩹🍉🍊❤️‍🩹🍉🍊❤️‍🩹🍉🍊❤️‍🩹🍉 please share & donate if you can

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Chimpanzees are not more aggressive than bonobos but target sexes differently Chimpanzees and bonobos differ in aggression distribution but not magnitude.

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Repeated restraint stress-induced increase in post-surgical somatosensory hypersensitivity and affective responding is mediated by β-adrenergic receptor activation and spinal NLRP3-IL1β signalling in male rats Neuropsychopharmacology - Repeated restraint stress-induced increase in post-surgical somatosensory hypersensitivity and affective responding is mediated by β-adrenergic receptor activation...

In ♂️🐀 pre-surgical stress exacerbated & prolonged somatosensory hypersensitivity, pain-related aversion & anxiety via enhanced spinal microglial NLRP3–interleukin-1β signaling, with effects mediated by β-adrenergic receptor activation

Lana and Mira sit on a shelf at the market guarding blue plastic shopping bags.

‼️‼️Mar 2 Fidaa update:

❌💌 TYSM Anon & Nicholas for $ 53 USD!

We didn’t reach last week’s weekly goal for feeding her kids ($158/$250) but I’m hoping we can do it this week! ESP since prices are tripling at the market 😭

$53/$250 USD for food

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✅ by Molly Shah

#SaveFidaa

Layan stands in front of a tent. She wears a winter coat and carries a shopping bag. Text overlay is same as post

‼️Feb 24 Fidaa update:

❌💌 So far we have raised $105 of the $250 USD goal of feeding Fidaa & the kids for a week

She is a chronically ill single mom of 4 with no soft place to land

$145 remaining, could 6 people spare $25 USD?

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✅ by Molly Shah

#SaveFidaa

Whatever happened to spontaneous human combustion? I'd like to see it start happening again

Let's get the ball rolling for Fidaa and make sure she has rent and medical care!

#Memphis #901

‼️‼️ Feb 9 Fidaa update:

❌ 💌 since Friday, she is drowning under survival costs: rent, food, chronic illness treatment

This is real life, she is really suffering this way & we need to help her find helpers, please share and donate if you can

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✅ by Molly Shah

#SaveFidaa

Simple fix, ring Lockheed & Boeing and say all US defence companies will be banned from future European defence projects on security grouns and their lobbyists will hit-up the Congressmen and Senators they already own to stop this.

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Free graphic novel Understanding-Animal-Behaviour

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Do Dogs and Other Animals Really Make Friends? They Do! While they don't write love letters, there’s no doubt animals form deep and enduring friendships and use many different ways to form and sustain these close relationships.

Animal friendships 🐪🧠🐾🐕

Dutch Shepherd with a large stuffed pickle toy

Santa brought Indy a Christmas pickle

5,000-year-old dog skeleton and dagger buried together in Swedish bog hint at mysterious Stone Age ritual Five millennia ago, ancient fishers buried a dog alongside a dagger in a lake bed. Archaeologists are trying to figure out why.

5000 year old dog burial 🐕🐾

Flying to Long Beach CA Sunday, what's the bet I'll get stranded?