The fact that humans who are not related by blood help each other repeatedly over time is demonstrably true—think of the ongoing mutual support that sustains your longest-running friendships.

The new paper draws on 20 years of research that Rubenstein and his colleagues have conducted on African starlings living in the harsh climate of east African savannas.

More information: Nature (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-08958-4

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      Then you’ll just get people telling you that you’re anthropomorphising or something. Because apparently the default position is that every animal is just a meat robot (even animals with brains much like our own) and that humans are the only animal to ever exist that thinks or feels things because we’re just that special and magical and chosen by god or some shit. Everything else has a fish brain.

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        He!y even fish have some kind of interaction with the world and universe arround them !

        Just go scuba diving and you will see how they all breath together in harmony… That’s the most beautiful thing I have ever experienced !

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          Watching octopus interactions and camouflage strategies in the wild has blown my mind.

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      9 hours ago

      Yeahh… After decades of breading, killing, testing on, […] animals, scientists came finally to the conclusion that animals are actually… Living beings !

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