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Use this tag for questions involving animal biology; evolution, ecology, physiology, behavior, genetics, and marine biology.
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Can cats survive a fall from any height?
As was brought up on in Is the use of parachutes supported by peer-reviewed papers? Where Andrew Grimm pointed to a study from 1987 which is widely reported (it's paywalled so I can't check myself) to …
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Do other animals have non-reproductive sex?
Mallard ducks are reported to both attempt to rape ducks of the same sex, as well as practice necrophilia. Either of those should qualify on some level as non-reproductive sex, even if not consensual …
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Do dogs know when their owner is coming home through some form of telepathic link?
My friend cited a study by Rupert Sheldrake which ran an experiment over several years that video taped dogs, showing that dogs knew when their owner was coming home due to some psychic link. He publi …
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Is 94% of male giraffe sexual behaviour homosexual?
I've been trying to track down the source of a claim that research has shown giraffe exhibiting a really high rate of male homosexual relations. Going through the blog spam leads me to a site without …