Study Finds That Insects and Other Animals Have Consciousness


by One Green Planet

One Green Planet— Recent revelations from the Bee Sensory and Behavioral Ecology Lab at Queen Mary University have unveiled the playful antics of bumblebees.

One Green Planet—Weekly Top Animal and Video News: Black-Footed Ferrets Successfully Cloned, Study Finds Insects Have Consciousness, New Yorkers Get Flaco the Owl Tattoos, and More!. Here you will find the top animal news that we published during the week, with links to each article to read the full story. Enjoy!

Dorset Eye—Study finds that we are much more likely to find an Einstein on the political left. A provocative fresh study has unearthed a correlation between left-wing convictions and both elevated intelligence quotient (IQ) scores and genetic markers thought to be linked with heightened intelligence. As elucidated by psychology researchers at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities in their novel paper, published in the journal Intelligence, a plethora of intelligence assessments revealed […]

Newsweek—Shelter Finds Box With a Note, Opens It to Find Animal No One Expected. A cat rescue received a box with a note that said the sender found this "kitten" while on a walk, but Sierra Pacific Furbabies discovered a big surprise.The California-based organization specializes in rescuing cats and kittens on euthanasia lists or strays from local shelters across the state, then connecting them to their forever homes. But recently, David Loop and Sierra Pacific Furbabies received a box dumped off at their office.The box was covered by a blanket, which revealed a note when...