It is time for animal behavior to become its own academic discipline. The Animal Behavior Society argues that animal behavior ...

Researchers from the University of St Andrews have developed an AI tool that reads animal movement from video and turns it ...

Some animals possess traits so extreme that they are often mistaken for myths or exaggerations. Scientists have documented these species in detail, yet their behavior and biology continue to provoke ...

Understanding how genes influence complex behaviors remains one of biology's most fascinating challenges. Now, however, in a recent study, researchers have compiled a comprehensive dataset documenting ...

In this article, we… Define zoochosis as a popular term to characterize the abnormal, repetitive behaviors seen in some ...

It's not a simple case of "follow the leader" when it comes to baboons on foot, traversing their home range. Based on prior research, scientists had a few theories as to why the animals fall into such ...

Ambika Kamath and Melina Packer are working to overturn biased, outdated views in biology When Ambika Kamath was a graduate student in evolutionary biology at Harvard University, she knew one thing ...

Homosexual behavior is much more common across the animal kingdom than we first thought, new research has found. Scientists found that 78 percent of animal behavior experts had seen some degree of ...

As much as 6 percent of people are intersex, having chromosomes, gonads, and/or genitals that do not fit neatly into a male or female category. For this and other reasons, human biology is not binary.

Scientists studying the behavior of wild octopuses off the coast of Australia have made a strange discovery, with the creatures caught hurling silt, algae and even shells at one another. The finding ...