It is time for animal behavior to become its own academic discipline. The Animal Behavior Society argues that animal behavior ...

As scientists use machine learning to decode the sounds of whales, dogs, and dolphins, opinions vary on how best to deploy the technology. Reading time 7 minutes Chirps, trills, growls, howls, squawks ...

Sexual and kin selection in animals: Female mate choice in rodents / Jörns Fickel and Alexandra Weyrich. Extra-pair paternity and sexual selection / Emmi Schlicht and Bart Kempenaers. Male ...

There are many forms of animal communication. In the lyrics of Let’s Do It, Cole Porter celebrated the diversity of signals that birds, bees, oysters, clams, sponges, and electric eels produce to ...

Over the last decades, researchers who study animal behavior have succeeded in largely blurring the line between Homo sapiens and other animals. Like their human counterparts, animals feel emotions, ...

Underneath the thick forest canopy on a remote island in the South Pacific, a New Caledonian crow peers from its perch, dark eyes glittering. The bird carefully removes a branch, strips off unwanted ...

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 ...