Lex talionis
Punishment enforces cooperation in the fig-wasp mutualism: The exception proves the rule
August 02, 2021
Mutually beneficial relationships are common, but what happens when one partner stops enforcing the other’s good behavior?
Mutually beneficial relationships are common, but what happens when one partner stops enforcing the other’s good behavior?
As winged mammals, baby bats learn to fly and stop drinking mothers’ milk during their transition from infants to flying juveniles. Bat researchers observed a new behavior. Mothers push pups away with their forearms, perhaps encouraging them to go explore the world on their own
Celebrating International Bat Week, come learn about real vampires!
Explorations have revealed what remains of the roads and new data on their state of conservation, their route and its historical importance for Panama.
Animals will help restore tropical forests if people locate reforestation projects near existing forest reserves and control hunting.
Art and science on the same wavelength
What role do civil society institutions play in achieving SDG 4?
Personal happiness, that is success, don't measure it in terms of accumulation of goods, measure it in accumulation of satisfaction.
After 14 thousand years of living in confinement and without the threat of predators, the white-faced capuchin monkeys on the Coiba National Park islands have begun to exhibit behaviors that have not been recorded in the mainland populations. For example, they are highly terrestrial and have learned to use stones as tools. Listen to doctoral student in animal behavior and former STRI fellow, Claudio Monteza, tell us this story.
Satellite tracking technology reveals the massive ranges of breeding areas of humpback whales in the Pacific Ocean.