Oscar the cat, a resident at a nursing and rehab facility whose biography was published earlier this week, has predicted the deaths of over 500 patients and spends the last hours of many of his charges curled up at their sides.
[New England Journal of Medicine] via [Discover]
Bees have been shown to be able to discriminate between different images of human-like faces.
[Journal of Experimental Biology] via [Science Daily], [photo]
Archer fish shoot streams of water at their prey and change the strength of their shot based on the size of the animal being hunted.
[Current Biology] via [Softpedia] and [Scientific Blogging]
Recently, a cat in the Chicago suburbs likely saved her owners by successfully bothering them in the middle of the night until they woke up to notice that their house was on fire.
[Chicago Breaking News], photo via [eHow]
Although visually guided movement of limbs has previously been seen as a complex task specific to mammals, evidence from high speed video suggests that locusts move their legs using visual cues rather than touch: Cambridge researchers found that when locusts’ vision of one leg is hindered, they use other, visible legs to take their next steps.
[Current Biology] via [PhysOrg]
