Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Animal nervous systems may lose their adaptive edge with climate change. PM Images/DigitalVision via Getty Images Human-driven ...

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

For more than a decade, neuroscientists had recordings from monkey brains learning to sort visual patterns. They had analyzed the data, published landmark papers, and moved on. Then a computer model ...

Wildlife experts warn that animals can shift from a calm to a defensive state in seconds, often without obvious warning signs ...

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 perspective in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface argues that advances in AI, sensing technologies and modeling are transforming the study of collective animal behavior, with implications ...

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.

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 ...

Many of the world’s cutest animals have more than just good looks; they are also genuinely fascinating. Once you take a ...

Animal behavior is the scientific study of the observable actions, interactions, and behavioral patterns of animals, typically investigated within ethology, behavioral ecology, and comparative ...

Science has treated same-sex sexual behavior as an “evolutionary conundrum” because it (generally) doesn’t help animals to reproduce, thus ensuring that their genes get passed down and their species ...