An early childhood surrounded by books and educational toys will leave positive fingerprints on a person’s brain well into their late teens, a two-decade-long research study has shown. Scientists found that the more mental stimulation a child gets around the age of four, the more developed the parts of their brains dedicated to language and …
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Two Golden Retrievers were trapped in the woods for two weeks before one was able to break free and lead his owner back to his brother. Penny Blackwell’s two dogs, Baxter and Bailey, disappeared from her yard in Sandwich, Mass., on September 26, reports MSN Now. Blackwell plastered her neighborhood and Facebook page with fliers …
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Today 160 rescued ducks, geese, turkeys and chickens are awakening to sunshine, clean bedding and grass under their feet. And for some of these birds saved from a hoarder, they are also having their very first swim! More than a million people have now watched this incredible footage of the duck’s debut on the pond. “Initially, …
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Ars Technica quotes the researchers that “it is, therefore, possible that the ability to reason about hidden causal agents is far more widespread in the animal kingdom than has been thought previously.” Another study offers some evidence of how New Caledonian crows’ morphology enables them to use tools. Using an ophthalmoscope video camera, researchers under Jolyon …
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