Animals can tease each other too ... to know why an animal engages in a certain behaviour. Are the apes in Laumer's study simply playing a practical joke, or are they trying to defuse tension ...

Monkeys love to wrestle, playfight, and chase each other, but they also enjoy playing ... use behaviour and neuroscience to begin to unravel the emotional state of animals. First, we can ask ...

Joanne Lefson, who has studied the mindset behind animal art, offers a deep dive into how and why animals paint and what their creative and aesthetic senses might look like.

In many animals, playing is affected by their mental state ... Maybe stressed animals have an unmet need for an outlet for positive behaviour. But it's up to future research to show that ...

Far from being a simple survival mechanism, animal play could well be the echo of a form of shared intelligence.

found the opposum’s behaviour so fascinating that the animal became the protagonist of her new book, Playing Possum: How Animals Understand Death. She says that an opposum’s death display ...

The article explored same-sex behaviors in animals, highlighting examples such ... rather than a fixed orientation. Homosexual behaviour is often regarded as a 'Darwinian paradox' by scientists ...

Young animals are seen playing with each other and in the company of their parents. This behaviour is contrasted with human seasonal activity of children on an Easter egg hunt and families walking ...

PLAYING POSSUM: How Animals Understand Death, by Susana Monsó Our neighbor’s cat, Mittens, was an adventurer who used to sneak into our house whenever the opportunity presented itself.