The Oregon Zoo shared a video last week of one of its resident sea otters indulging in a slimy, salty snack. It’s a ...

Dunking behavior in non-human animals is considered a foraging innovation. It is typically associated with softening dry food, cleaning, flavoring, drowning prey, or transporting liquid.

While reading a series of titles of new scientific papers, I came across an unnatural series of words: “Innovative flavoring behavior.” The phrase sounded alienating, like the impossible promise of ...

And while plenty of animals have shown specific food preferences ... Zewald and his colleagues first noticed dunking behaviour a few years back when three Goffin cockatoos at an Austrian aviary ...