When large and warty cane toads were first brought to Australia nearly 100 years ago, they had a simple mission: to gobble up beetles and other pests in the sugarcane fields. Today, though, the toads ...

Non-human animals display many unexpected cognitive abilities and forms of intelligence. The story of Mac is an intriguing ...

Students at Virginia Tech spent the past semester successfully training 14 shelter cats. Many people think cats just don’t ...

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We introduce you to the incredible exploding ant that lays down their life for the benefit of the colony in a spectacular way ...

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 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 ...

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

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 ...

Wildlife experts warn that animals can shift from a calm to a defensive state in seconds, often without obvious warning signs. Calmness in animals is not inattention but controlled awareness, meaning ...

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.