Hacker News with Generative AI: Animals

As China seeks influence, it has a cuddly way into City Hall: Pandas (nytimes.com)
After joining the Chinese leader Xi Jinping for dinner last year, Mayor London Breed of San Francisco accompanied him to the airport to bid him farewell. There, on the tarmac, she made her request: pandas.
China, Politics, Diplomacy, San Francisco, Animals
3 points by PaulHoule 5 days ago | 1 comments
Orca that carried dead calf for weeks appears to be in mourning again (nytimes.com)
Researchers say that the killer whale’s newborn calf in Puget Sound has also died and she’s unable to let go.
Animals, Marine Biology, Grief, Whales, Nature
139 points by pepys 13 days ago | 241 comments
Parasitic worms 'manipulate' mantises onto asphalt roads, say researchers (mainichi.jp)
OSAKA -- Every autumn, dead mantises can be seen lying on the asphalt of roads. A type of parasitic worm may be leading the creatures to their deaths there, researchers at Kyoto University and others have determined.
Animals, Science, Biology, Parasites, Research
154 points by anigbrowl 14 days ago | 110 comments
Why Do Some People Look Like Their Dogs? (nautil.us)
The resemblance isn’t just a comical coincidence.
Human Behavior, Animals, Psychology
14 points by dnetesn 15 days ago | 2 comments
The comb jelly can fuse with another (including nervous and digestive systems) (cnn.com)
Biology, Animals, Zoology, Marine Life
101 points by alok-g 17 days ago | 25 comments
Scientists explore longevity drugs for dogs that could also 'extend human life' (theguardian.com)
Researchers say drugs may be able to increase lifespan by extending health and thus shortening the rate of ageing
Science, Longevity, Animals, Health, Aging
21 points by pseudolus 22 days ago | 2 comments
Brazilian velvet ant is ultrablack (nytimes.com)
Scientists found that the dark markings on a species of fluffy wasp reflected less than 1 percent of light.
Science, Biology, Animals, Color, Nature
41 points by bookofjoe 24 days ago | 26 comments
Mike the Headless Chicken (wikipedia.org)
Animals, History, Oddities
38 points by rrauenza 24 days ago | 6 comments
Meet Bex, Kawasaki's Rideable Robot Goat (2022) (cycleworld.com)
This goat prances or lets you ride, showing Kawi’s focus on humanoid development.
Robotics, Kawasaki, Humanoid Robots, Animals, Technology
39 points by rmason 30 days ago | 24 comments
An artist who trained rats to trade in foreign-exchange markets (2014) (theatlantic.com)
Mr. Lehman could predict the prices of foreign-exchange futures more accurately than he could call a coin flip. But, being a rat, he needed the right bonus package to do so: a food pellet for when he was right, and a small shock when he was wrong. (Also, being a rat, he was not very good at flipping coins.)
Animals, Finance, Research, Behavior, Art
247 points by doener 31 days ago | 119 comments
Argentine rodents are Dubai oasis' newest residents (apnews.com)
A desert oasis hidden away in the dunes in the far reaches of skyscraper-studded Dubai has drawn a surprising new set of weary world travelers: a pack of Argentinian rodents.
Animals, Dubai, Argentina, Travel
13 points by nafnlj 32 days ago | 4 comments
Animals as Chemical Factories (worksinprogress.co)
Horses bled for antivenom, crabs drained for endotoxin tests, and silkworms boiled for silk. Science can now replace these practices with synthetic alternatives — but we need to find ways to scale them.
Animals, Science, Biotechnology, Animal Welfare, Sustainability
47 points by royalroad 35 days ago | 62 comments
Kafka's Screwball Tragedy: Investigations of a Philosophical Dog (mitpress.mit.edu)
Philosophy, Literature, Books, Kafka, Animals
84 points by anarbadalov 40 days ago | 12 comments
Animals in Espionage (cia.gov)
At CIA, we find inspiration in all kinds of places, including nature. From robotic catfish to real-life spy birds, animals and their look-alikes have helped Agency officers perform a variety of critical duties, including eavesdropping, intelligence gathering, security, covert communications, and photo surveillance.
Espionage, Animals, CIA, Technology
36 points by carlos-menezes 40 days ago | 20 comments
Oldest known wild bird lays egg at 74 (bbc.co.uk)
The world's oldest known wild bird has laid an egg at the approximate age of 74, US biologists say.
Animals, Biology, Nature, Birds
238 points by GeoAtreides 43 days ago | 110 comments
There Are No More Dogs in Antarctica (chrisdobo.com)
Antarctica, Animals, Environment
128 points by thunderbong 43 days ago | 94 comments
Scientists baffled as orcas seem to revive an 80s trend: dead salmon hats (theguardian.com)
Researchers suspect that orcas may be reviving a peculiar fashion statement of sorts not seen since the 1980s.
Animals, Science, Behavior, Trends, Fashion
7 points by rntn 46 days ago | 1 comments
Zoo experiment finds 1 in 5 animals test positive for Covid (sciencealert.com)
A new paper provides a stark reminder that the virus responsible for COVID-19 is still spreading, with 9 animals out of 47 testing positive for SARS-CoV-2 at a zoo in Brazil.
Animals, COVID-19, Science, Brazil
7 points by geox 47 days ago | 2 comments
The Surprising New History of Horse Domestication (scientificamerican.com)
The world we live in was built on horseback. Many people today rarely encounter horses, but this is a recent development. Only a few decades ago domestic horses formed the fabric of societies around the globe. Almost every aspect of daily life was linked to horses in an important way. Mail was delivered by postal riders, people traveled by horse-drawn carriage, merchants used horses to transport goods across continents, farmers cultivated their land with horsepower, and soldiers rode horses into battle.
History, Animals, Science, Domestication
36 points by Brajeshwar 48 days ago | 28 comments
New Research Shows Consciousness Connects to the Universe (popularmechanics.com)
A RECENT GROUNDBREAKING EXPERIMENT in which anesthesia was administered to rats has convinced scientists that tiny structures in the rodents’ brains are responsible for the experience of consciousness.
Consciousness, Neuroscience, Science, Animals, Research
6 points by voisin 53 days ago | 0 comments
The 'giant' river crabs that live beneath Rome's ancient ruins (nationalgeographic.com)
Not much remains from the time Rome was only a marshy valley—except the crabs that have taken over ancient canals.
Animals, Archaeology, Italy
64 points by mooreds 55 days ago | 8 comments
Penguin travels every year to visit man who rescued him (2016) (cbc.ca)
Animals, Wildlife, Human-Animal Interactions, Conservation
43 points by thunderbong 63 days ago | 12 comments
Biological Miracle – Wood Frog (nps.gov)
The most remarkable thing about wood frogs happens not in the summer when they transform from tadpoles to frogs, but in the winter when they hibernate.
Biology, Animals, Amphibians
505 points by thunderbong 63 days ago | 139 comments
The Surprising Social Lives of Pythons (nytimes.com)
Ball pythons were long assumed to be solitary, but scientists discovered the snakes in captivity prefer each others’ company when given the chance to live socially.
Science, Animals, Pythons, Social Behavior
16 points by Thevet 64 days ago | 5 comments
Tuffi (wikipedia.org)
Tuffi (born 1946, India – died 1989, Paris, France) was a female Asian elephant that became famous in West Germany during 1950 when she accidentally fell from the Wuppertal Schwebebahn into the River Wupper underneath.
Animals, History, Germany, Accidents
12 points by thunderbong 65 days ago | 0 comments
Japanese Raccoon Dog (wikipedia.org)
The Japanese raccoon dog (Nyctereutes viverrinus),[1] also known by its Japanese name tanuki (Japanese: 狸, タヌキ),[2] is a species of canid endemic to Japan.
Animals, Japan, Biology
3 points by kblissett 66 days ago | 0 comments
Photo Editor for Cats (afloat.boats)
There hasn’t been a lot of advancement in the ease of use of photo editing tools, and the barrier remains fairly high.
Photo Editing, Animals, Humor
25 points by md_not_a_doctor 68 days ago | 3 comments
40 monkeys escape from research facility in South Carolina (news.sky.com)
Forty monkeys have escaped from a research facility in South Carolina.
Animals, Research, South Carolina
24 points by austinallegro 71 days ago | 17 comments
Police hunt 40 monkeys that escaped from a South Carolina research facility (nbcnews.com)
A police search is underway after 40 monkeys escaped from a research facility in South Carolina on Wednesday night.
Animals, Research, South Carolina, News
6 points by quakeguy 72 days ago | 1 comments
The US Navy Put Cameras on Dolphins and the Results Were Wild (sciencealert.com)
A buzz of clicks and gleeful victory squeals compose the soundtrack in the first footage ever recorded from the perspective of dolphins freely hunting off the coast of North America.
Animals, Science, Marine Biology, Technology
93 points by Jimmc414 73 days ago | 32 comments