From Live Science:

This new finding might do Barry White proud – deeper voices can help male deer get it on.

From BMC Ecology:

Although most people imagine wolves chasing deer and other hoofed animals, new research suggests that, when they can, wolves actually prefer fishing to hunting. The study, published today in the open access journal BMC Ecology, shows that when salmon is available, wolves will reduce deer hunting activity and instead focus on seafood.

From the article itself, the ecological implications remind me of what we now also know about coastal trees and salmon — that through black bears feeding on salmon, these trees also get to load up on their Omega 3s.

Broad ecological implications include the potential transmission of marine-based disease into terrestrial systems, the effects of marine subsidy on wolf-deer population dynamics, and the distribution of salmon nutrients by wolves into coastal ecosystems.

From a letter to the Editor at the NY Times comes this gem that’s right up my alley:

I’m glad that researchers are documenting the interspecies social skills of crows. Our family lore tells of Klaus, the crow who befriended my great-uncle Jens. Uncle Jens boasted of Klaus’s intelligence, and tolerated his pilferage of small shiny objects. Klaus, in turn, allowed Uncle Jens to climb up to his nest to retrieve needed items like spectacles and Auntie’s thimbles.

I don’t know the extent to which Klaus and Uncle Jens communicated verbally, or if it was in English, Danish or crow, but each recognized a friend in the other.

My own research on interspecies social cognition in dogs has been filled with stories like this.

First in a series, a la Andrew Sullivan, we have a dog nursing kittens:

Paul Kalenak found the kittens at his garage in Aliquippa after their mom had been killed and he took them home.
His dog, Cobra, a Jack Russell terrier, had just given birth to some pups.
She’s now nursing the kittens.
The family plans to keep the litter.