Communication is a necessity found even in the simplest forms of life. It typically develops between individuals of the same species or population in a nonverbal manner, through visual, olfactory, electrical, or acoustic signals. More rarely, forms of communication can also arise between different species through co-evolutionary phenomena of great […]
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“Jeremy Rifkin reminds us that water animates all life on the blue planet. As he writes, “being of the waters” means stabilizing our course and securing our place in a complex living organism, of which we are only one actor, whose resilience and well-being depend on “going with the flow.” […]
What role can the consumption of animal-derived foods play in a healthy, balanced, and sustainable diet, considering our health, the planet, the environment, future generations, animal welfare, and workers’ rights? Stefano Vendrame, nutritionist and science writer, in “Carnivori o vegani?” (Carnivores or Vegans?) aims, as the publisher states on the […]
Karl von Frisch (1886–1982) was a professor of zoology at the University of Munich, and his favorite subject of study was bees. As a sensory physiologist and neuroethologist, he highlighted two key behaviours in bees that advanced scientific understanding: their spatial orientation and the secrets of their communication. For this […]
In Italy today, two different populations of this carnivore exist, both of which, however, eat very little meat and largely prefer vegetarian diets. Looking back, we see even more successive bear populations, with species spanning much of the Pleistocene, starting from its earliest part (Late Villafranchian, 1.8 million years ago). […]