When you’re staying up with a mate putting the world to rights, do you ponder on what makes us human? It’s easy to think human behaviour is exclusive when picking out a new wallpaper or challenging ...

Animal play is a topic that has received a good detailed attention in recent years (see and and, for example) because coming to an understanding of this behavior is central to learning about the ...

From tickling to playing catch, animals engage in certain behaviors just for fun, even enjoying sensations that are unknown to humans, concludes an extensive new survey on pleasure in the animal ...

In his new book, Exultant Ark, animal behaviourist Jonathan Balcombe argues that animals experience pleasure, comfort and joy and that these traits are more than just practical evolutionary survival ...

There was a time when kids, on weekends and after school, were shoved out the door and left to their own devices. “Go play,” our mothers told us, and we did. We wrestled, played sandlot baseball and ...

Google launched a new search feature today, serving up fun facts atop search results for animals, plants, fruits and vegetable queries that include the words “fun facts.” From the Google Search Blog: ...