Biocentrism and the value of living beings
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This is a Media Gallery where I’ll post information and news I find online. They involve information about interactions between humans and other living beings, and scientific discoveries about a variety of creatures’ traits and abilities. I find them fascinating and well suited for the theme of this website, and hope you do as well.
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The first detailed observations of swimming chimpanzees and orangutans suggest that they, like us, tend to swim using a form of breaststroke. The findings imply…
There are some pretty extreme life forms out there living under conditions that seem almost impossible. Imagen species thriving in water temperatures at the boiling point…
Of the non-human species dolphins has the longest social memory ever recorded. They can recognize their old tank mates’ whistles after being separated for more…
Have you ever thought about the fact that behind every howl there is an individual? A research conducted by PhD student Holly Root-Gutteridge has now…
A study conducted at Duke Lemur Center show that lemurs have personality traits that are possible to identify and are consistent from situation to situation. Reference…
UK scientists have recently found that plants have the capacity to do sophisticated arithmetic calculation. Not bad for someone without consciousness! Reference and more info: BBC News
Both philosophers and scientists have long thought that only humans have culture. This idea is now about to be crushed as recent research has found…
“Like some humans, chimpanzees and bonobos exhibit emotional responses to outcomes of their decisions by pouting or throwing angry tantrums when a risk-taking strategy fails…
The first detailed observations of swimming chimpanzees and orangutans suggest that they, like us, tend to swim using a form of breaststroke. The findings imply…
There are some pretty extreme life forms out there living under conditions that seem almost impossible. Imagen species thriving in water temperatures at the boiling point…
Of the non-human species dolphins has the longest social memory ever recorded. They can recognize their old tank mates’ whistles after being separated for more…
Have you ever thought about the fact that behind every howl there is an individual? A research conducted by PhD student Holly Root-Gutteridge has now…
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