Study co-lead author Elizabeth Carlen told the Times that tall trees are usually cleared to give police a better view of ...

From salamanders to monkeys, many species get more violent at warmer temperatures — a trend that may shape their social structures as the world warms.

Researchers model and map how neurons across the tiny brain of a C. elegans worm encode its behaviors, revealing many new insights about the robustness and flexibility of its nervous system. To ...

"The distribution of resources has also changed." Experts make concerning discovery about animals' behavior after wildfires: ...

Some animals are so astonishingly unique in their behavior that they make human beings pause and wonder-could they really be animals? Their actions sometimes mirror humans in surprising ways, bridging ...

This blog post addresses behavior across all animal species. It considers what we can learn about behavior when we do not limit our study to just humans. Studying nonhuman animal behaviors is ...

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Antidepressants don’t just affect human libidos. New research shows that female starlings fed food spiked with the antidepressant fluxoxetine (Prozac), were less “attractive” to males and so less ...

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 ...

A new study from Spanish researchers contradicts the long-held belief that same-sex sexual encounters have been common in all species since their appearance in the animal kingdom. While the behavior ...

During the deer rut in California, mule and black-tailed deer become highly active during breeding season. We have expert advice for you.

Through a method called operant conditioning, Eunice Framm teaches her barnyard zoo animals to receive vaccines and perform ...