2024 is the year of the cicada. In the coming months, certain states will experience a rare natural event that hasn't occurred in over 200 years: The emergence of two separate broods of cicadas. This ...
A real-life "Octomom" off the coast of California has been declared a champion of parenting -- and patience -- in the animal world. After the deep-sea creature laid a clutch of eggs, she protected her ...
In a feat that surely made good use of all eight arms, an octopus revealed a new secret of deep sea life when ecologists observed her record-breaking behaviour from a robotic submarine. She guarded ...
The term broody might not be an everyday word used in the average person’s vocabulary, but for anyone who owns chickens it is a well-known poultry tendency. Broodiness is a behavior a hen can exhibit ...
Brooding is such a romance novel description. How many times is the hero described as brooding? I’m fairly certain that Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights is brooding, and so is Mr. Rochester in Jane ...
Call it extreme parenting: Scientists announced the discovery of a deep sea octopus mom that faithfully guarded the same clutch of eggs for a record-breaking 4-1/2 years. “This is the longest brooding ...
We typically try to process painful or upsetting experiences by self-reflecting and thinking about them. However, not all forms of self-reflection are psychologically healthy and adaptive. Brooding ...
We typically try to process painful or upsetting experiences by self-reflecting and thinking about them. However, not all forms of self-reflection are psychologically healthy and adaptive. Brooding ...
A female octopus will defend her eggs to the death—literally. In species that live in shallow water, the mother guards a den where her eggs are clustered. An open-sea octopus carries her eggs in her ...