Scientists are now using computer models to understand how animal groups form and interact. These generative network models ...

I've been studying various aspects of animal behavior, especially in mammals, for many decades and have always felt uneasy about how cultural values have limited our true understanding of the dynamics ...

For decades, sharks have been cast as the ultimate solitary predators — cold, instinct-driven “killing machines” that roam ...

Amidst this crisis, machine learning has emerged as a potential solution to these limitations, offering continuous, non-invasive monitoring that can operate across the full daily cycle of animals, ...

Studies show that animals living in urban environments around the world exhibit common sets of behaviors. At the same time, ...

A new study adds to the growing body of evidence that lobsters feel pain, with the crustaceans seemingly responding to ...

Some of the foundational studies in the field were neither ethical by today’s standards nor replicable. But we can do better. Unfortunately for both the field and the dogs themselves, the truth is ...

An aerial view of regenerating secondary tropical forest in the Barro Colorado Nature Monument, Panama. Credit: Christian Ziegler, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior The world faces a climate ...

Mother monkeys permanently separated from their newborns sometimes find comfort in plush toys; this recent finding from Harvard experiments has set off intense controversy among scientists and ...