March brings warmer temperatures and the return of queen wasps emerging from winter hibernation. After spending cold months dormant in protected spaces, queens wake up hungry and immediately start ...

We associate nests with shelter, warmth, and a safe retreat—and usually picture a bird's nest made out of twigs, grass and feathers. Yet many other animals take advantage of such refuges, with nests ...

The chimpanzees tended to build more insulating nests when the weather was colder and when it was more humid, both during nest-building and overnight. In cooler and wetter conditions, the chimps also ...

Neighboring groups of birds within the same species can create very different-looking nests — showing that their nest-building choices aren't solely controlled by instinct and the environment. Instead ...

Young female chimpanzees make their nests earlier and more often than young male chimps, demonstrating their independence right from the start, a new UdeM study finds. When do you make your bed? In ...

If you picture a bee nest (yes, bees build nests), you probably think of a natural haven of leafy comfort. Normally, you’d be right, but biologists studying two types of bee recently found that the ...

Keen-eyed Mount Vernonites have recently been watching osprey pairs add sticks to last year’s nests atop light poles at Martin Luther King Park and Walt Whitman Middle School’s ball field. Birds are ...

Every evening, as they move from place to place through the forest, chimpanzees stop to build a nest – most often in a tree – to sleep in. Using a selection of branches, leaves and twigs, they create ...