Caught right-handed
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An investigation was carried out about the private life of doubly endowed male earwig species Labidura riparia that has a strong preference for its right penis. The observations showed that nearly 90% of field-collected and laboratory-reared males hold their intromittent organs in the right-ready state when not mating as well as mating while other observations also showed that not all earwig taxa have two penises, some have only one warranting more study on earwig species.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2006
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Startling starlings
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Timothy Gentner and colleagues showed that the at least one non-human species, European starling, can be trained to acquire complex recursive grammar such as the A"B" language. They rewarded European starlings for pressing a bar in response to A"B" strings of starling-generated sounds, such as a rattle rattle warble warble and withheld the reward for responses to the (AB)" grammar.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2006
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Before the world
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According to Francois Jacob, evolution is like a tinkerer who builds something new by using whatever is nearby, then from what is the human capacity for language made? Most accounts of the evolution of language have focused on characterizing changes that are internal to the language system.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2004
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