The animal realm also has its stories. Animals are a critical component of our environment, both domesticated and wild and ...

In a discovery that deepens our understanding of animal social bonds, a study led by University of Oxford researchers in ...

By mapping these movements into 3D models of the animal's joints, the researchers could identify recurring types of movements, which allowed them to sort and classify individual behaviors, like ...

While many scientists in evolutionary biology have questioned different animal behaviors, same-sex sexual behavior in animals is a topic that is seeing increasing interest.

But same-sex behaviors may have different causes and consequences in individual animal species. It could even be that some animals consciously choose to participate in these behaviors rather than ...

There are many similarities between all animal species in terms of behaviors and this blog is meant to provide information about those similarities. It is something I started after the publication ...

Like humans, other animals use a wide variety of behaviors to solve problems. A single animal can perform many different behaviors, sometimes at the same time as one another! One of the tools that ...

Human and animal behavior is not as different as once believed. In Not So Different, the biologist Nathan H. Lents argues that the same evolutionary forces of cooperation and competition have ...

Organisms that exclusively practice different-sex sexual behaviors rely on characteristics such as differing body sizes, colors, or chemical signals to distinguish between sexes.

Scholars and schoolchildren alike have generally classified animals by the foods they eat: carnivores eat meat; browsers consume flowering plants, conifers and shrubs; and grazers focus on grasses.

Animal control officers wrote about one case, where an animal was deemed a "dangerous dog" by a court, surrendered to Young Williams, and then adopted to another family.