Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Animal nervous systems may lose their adaptive edge with climate change. PM Images/DigitalVision via Getty Images Human-driven ...

Scientists once assumed that evolution would eventually force every member of a species to behave in more or less the same ...

A tiger walks the same worn groove along the edge of its exhibit, like a broken record. A parrot methodically plucks out its own feathers until bare skin shows through. To a casual visitor, these can ...

Wildlife experts warn that animals can shift from a calm to a defensive state in seconds, often without obvious warning signs ...

As a career ethologist, I was thrilled when I learned about Dr. Matthew Calarco's new and highly original book titled The Three Ethologies: A Positive Vision for Rebuilding Human-Animal Relationships.

Animal behavior research relies on careful observation of animals. Researchers might spend months in a jungle habitat watching tropical birds mate and raise their young. They might track the rates of ...

A perspective in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface argues that advances in AI, sensing technologies and modeling are transforming the study of collective animal behavior, with implications ...

What role does environmental settings play in behavior? This is what a recent study published in Scientific Reports hopes to address as an international team of researchers investigated behaviors ...

Science has treated same-sex sexual behavior as an “evolutionary conundrum” because it (generally) doesn’t help animals to reproduce, thus ensuring that their genes get passed down and their species ...

Animal behavior is the scientific study of the observable actions, interactions, and behavioral patterns of animals, typically investigated within ethology, behavioral ecology, and comparative ...

Many of the world’s cutest animals have more than just good looks; they are also genuinely fascinating. Once you take a ...

While an increasingly small number of people, especially academic researchers, try to argue that nonhuman animals (animals) don’t really make friends, most people, including both researchers and ...