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New research found that, compared with a father's traits related to allergies and asthma, a mother's traits create a higher risk that a child will develop these same traits in early childhood.

When horses face unsolvable problems, they use visual and tactile signals to get human attention and ask for help, a new study has demonstrated. The study also suggests that horses alter their communicative behavior based on humans’ knowledge of the situation.

South American spider females pick their mates according to how well the nuptial gift is wrapped. It’s not only what’s inside the nuptial gift that a potential suitor brings to a female Paratrechalea ornata spider that counts. It’s the whole package, white silk wrappings and all, that can give one male spider the edge over another.