A global analysis has found that urban animals are bolder and more aggressive, exploratory and active than their rural ...

A trove of photos and videos gathered from social media has helped researchers propose a few possible reasons for the seldom ...

Have you ever heard of the term “zoömusicology”? Essentially, it refers to the study of sounds and communication produced and ...

Animals have evolved some truly bizarre behaviors, and even after decades of research and the aid of modern technology, ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Many animals survive predation by running, fighting, or hiding. However, some take a much stranger approach: they play dead.