Animal behaviour is the scientific study of the behaviour of animals. The discipline covers study under experimental conditions, behaviourism, or natural conditions, ethology. Collective escape in ...

A fork-tailed drongo has figured out how to weaponize trust, a squirrel fakes its own burials to outwit thieves, and a sneeze ...

Unravelling the secrets of wild animals is one of the biggest challenges in ecology, with bio-logging (i.e., the use of animal-borne loggers or bio-loggers) playing a pivotal role in tackling this ...

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 ...

When biologists study cooperation in animals, they usually offer just a single task at a time. But what happens when animals can choose among several opportunities to work together? Biologists at ...

Researchers are utilizing artificial intelligence to analyze the behavior of laboratory mice more efficiently and reduce the number of animals in experiments. Researchers at ETH Zurich are utilising ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Aug. 21, 2017, a solar eclipse shrouded The Riverbanks Zoo and Garden in Columbia, South Carolina, in near-total darkness for ...

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.

Ambika Kamath and Melina Packer are working to overturn biased, outdated views in biology When Ambika Kamath was a graduate student in evolutionary biology at Harvard University, she knew one thing ...

Microbes are everywhere, even inside of our bodies. The gut microbiome has been shown to have a powerful influence on biology, and can even affect the brain. Scientists have been learning more about ...

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 ...

Why can't we stop anthropomorphizing our animal friends and foes? Illustration by Emily Lankiewicz / Orca image from Christopher Michel via Wikimedia Commons under CC-BY 2.0 / Bird and dolphin via ...