When the environment changes dramatically, animals from mollusks to crows can make big changes in their behavior that enable ...

Some of the foundational studies in the field were neither ethical by today’s standards nor replicable. But we can do better. Unfortunately for both the field and the dogs themselves, the truth is ...

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 ...

Homosexual behavior is much more common across the animal kingdom than we first thought, new research has found. Scientists found that 78 percent of animal behavior experts had seen some degree of ...

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 ...

During the height of the COVID pandemic, headline stories were peppered with photos of deserted streets from the world’s largest metropolises. Universities quickly began to resemble ghost towns, as ...

Never underestimate the mind of a crow. Members of a family of birds that includes ravens, rooks, magpies, and jays, crows have been known to bend wire into hooks to retrieve food; drop nuts in a road ...

Todd M. Freeberg does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

Many people, including researchers and people who are simply interested in animal behavior, have written off queer sexual behavior in nonhuman animals for any number of reasons, including that it is ...

Scientists studying the behavior of wild octopuses off the coast of Australia have made a strange discovery, with the creatures caught hurling silt, algae and even shells at one another. The finding ...

For centuries, unusual animal behavior before earthquakes has been reported worldwide. Livestock becoming restless, wildlife ...