The striped hyena is the smallest of the hyena subspecies and the only one found outside Africa. Unlike its larger spotted cousin, striped hyenas tend to be solitary or live in small groups, and ...

A study of nine species of large mammals in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem has revealed that their behavioral responses to ...

Optimal cue integration, Bayesian Causal Inference, spatial orienting, speech illusions and other key phenomena in audiovisual perception naturally emerge from the collective behavior of a population ...

Large mammals in Yellowstone adapt to summer heat by changing behavior—shaped more by landscape than biology, a new study ...

Rodents in northern Germany were spotted using two different hunting strategies at major urban bat hibernation sites ...

The Bottlenose Dolphin is the most intelligent mammal on Earth, known for its problem-solving skills, communication, and ...

In a laboratory in Florida, a house cat named Pepper has again been involved in the unanticipated discovery of a new virus as ...

Arabidopsis thaliana was always an unlikely candidate for the limelight. But 25 years ago, the diminutive thale cress ...

Vertebrates have extremely different brain sizes: even with the same body size, brain size can vary a hundredfold. As a rule, ...

Marine mammal care centers worry NOAA furloughs and cuts over a longer period could reduce oversight for ocean creatures.

Marine mammal care centers worry NOAA furloughs and cuts over a longer period could reduce oversight for ocean creatures.

It's well known that deadly snakes strike very swiftly, and it is easy to infer that if you’re unlucky enough to be bitten, the moment of contact will be as simple as it is sudden: a lightning-quick ...