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 ...

Private animal facilities often house species that require strict handling protocols to avoid serious injury. Close ...

I started this blog a little over a year ago as a way of exploring the intersection of animal behavior research and human psychology. Research on animal behavior provides a lot of insights for ...

Horses detect human fear through smell alone and exhibit fearful behavior through emotional contagion mechanism.

Incidents that make us consider the relationship between humans and wild animals are happening all over Japan, from bear ...

Play is important for animals in captivity, both as an indicator of their emotional states and as a contributor to their long ...

Carnivores, typically more active at night, became more active during the day when tourists were present. Herbivores, in response, shifted their waterhole visits to nighttime, potentially increasing ...

Humans aren’t the only animals with hot tempers. In 2016, ecologist Kristen Cecala and a colleague watched black-bellied salamanders (Desmognathus amphileucus) from Appalachian streams lunge at one ...

They sometimes touched their lips together, breathed into one another’s open mouths, or stood on two legs and hugged.

Scientists used the April 2024 solar eclipse to show how animals adjust their behavior when daylight suddenly disappears.