New research from the University of Oxford has revealed that species that are more social live longer and produce offspring for a longer timespan. This is the first study on this topic which spans the animal kingdom, from jellyfish to humans.
According to a recent study published in Current Biology, the auditory pathway for vibration detection in the tokay gecko involves the saccule in the inner ear, which projects to the brainstem nucleus VeO (nucleus vestibularis ovalis), allowing the gecko to sense low-frequency vibrations through a pathway typically associated with balance, essentially giving them a "sixth sense" for detecting vibrations through the ground or water; this pathway is considered to be present in other lepidosaurs like snakes as well.
Since it fits in well with a lot of what you've shared in this threat so far, I thought I'd share this interesting paper published in Science a couple of weeks ago describing a mechanism for how parrots make yellow and red pigments. They looked at a few species and then in detail at Dusky Lories in this study.