Chimps use gestures to communicate during food hunting

Last Updated: Saturday, January 18, 2014, 14:35

Researchers have claimed that chimpanzees are capable of using gestures to communicate as they pursue specific goals, like finding a hidden piece of food.

Human hunting behaviour similar to sharks and bees

Last Updated: Tuesday, December 24, 2013, 18:41

Human hunter-gatherers employed the same foraging movements as used by many other animals such as sharks and honey bees when hunting, a new study has found.

Human hunting behaviour similar to sharks and honey bees

Last Updated: Tuesday, December 24, 2013, 12:38

A team of anthropologists has found that the Hadza tribe`s movements while foraging can be described by a mathematical pattern called a Levy walk, a pattern that also is found in the movements of many other animals like sharks and honey bees.

Turkey says `no war weapons` sent to Syria

Last Updated: Tuesday, December 17, 2013, 22:32

Turkey`s defence minister on Tuesday denied reports that his country was delivering weapons of war to Syrian rebels, but acknowledged that "hunting rifles" had been exported to Syria.

Bats and whales use similar biosonar for hunting

Last Updated: Wednesday, October 30, 2013, 11:03

Despite the difference in their size, with one weighing 50 tons and the other weight just a few grams, bats and whales share a similar story.

Engaged in "witch-hunting", not using coal reserves: Digvijay

Last Updated: Wednesday, October 16, 2013, 20:51

Congress General Secretary Digvijay Singh on Wednesday urged caution in proceeding in the case saying that while "we are witch hunting", the country is forced to import coal to feed its thermal power stations.

Cave art suggests people inhabited Americas 30,000 years back

Last Updated: Tuesday, October 15, 2013, 16:17

A new exhibit has suggested that Americas may have been inhabited as far back as 30,000 years ago, 18,000 years earlier than believed.

Halt illegal killing of animals: Board

Last Updated: Friday, October 4, 2013, 11:09

The Animal Welfare Board of India, a statutory body under the Ministry of Environment and Forests, has directed State governments to strictly implement animal laws for stopping illegal killing of animals during Bakrid festival.

`Climate change, not hunting may have led to mammoths extinction`

Last Updated: Thursday, September 12, 2013, 13:35

Researchers have claimed to have found proof to suggest that woolly mammoth was led to extinction because of climate change and not due to human influence.

Nine sent to judicial custody for hunting deer

Last Updated: Tuesday, September 10, 2013, 21:28

Nine persons were Tuesday sent to judicial custody by a court here for allegedly killing an adult deer and consuming its meat in Kaziranga extended territory area in Assam`s Golaghat district.