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March brings warmer temperatures and the return of queen wasps emerging from winter hibernation. After spending cold months dormant in protected spaces, queens wake up hungry and immediately start ...

The chimpanzees tended to build more insulating nests when the weather was colder and when it was more humid, both during nest-building and overnight. In cooler and wetter conditions, the chimps also ...

Young female chimpanzees make their nests earlier and more often than young male chimps, demonstrating their independence right from the start, a new UdeM study finds. When do you make your bed? In ...

Most birds build some sort of nest where the eggs are incubated. In many species, the female does that job, and in many others both females and males participate. But in a few species, it is the male ...

Nest-building isn't just instinct. Birds can learn from others, letting groups within one species develop their own distinctive nest-building... When birds build nests, they're also building a culture ...

"Meanwhile some pigeon places a lone twig on a windowsill and calls it a day." ...

Every evening, as they move from place to place through the forest, chimpanzees stop to build a nest – most often in a tree – to sleep in. Using a selection of branches, leaves and twigs, they create ...

Neighboring groups of birds within the same species can create very different-looking nests — showing that their nest-building choices aren't solely controlled by instinct and the environment. Instead ...