If it weren't for Sultan and his primate clan, the study of animal behavior would have taken a very different path. Sultan, a ...

The post Animal Behaviors Scientists Still Can’t Fully Explain appeared first on A-Z Animals. Animals have evolved some truly bizarre behaviors, and even after decades of research and the aid of ...

Some animals follow patterns that baffle even the sharpest researchers. Whales beach themselves in mass numbers. Goats topple over when startled. Dolphins craft perfect rings of bubbles. These ...

Whales breach, spout, and slap the water for reasons that go far beyond random movement, and a zoologist breaks down exactly ...

New AI model, BehaVERT, reads mouse behavior like language, revealing patterns that could improve research into human conditions.

Inequality is not unique to human groups and societies. Individuals with relatively little power possess a variety of behavioral strategies to counterbalance or regulate power differences. In humans, ...

Biomedical engineers at Duke University have developed a 3D imaging method to precisely map and categorize the social behavior of animals. By quantitatively measuring the movements, interactions, and ...

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 ...

How animals may modify their behavior depending on their context has been modeled mathematically by two RIKEN neuroscientists. Their simple but biologically plausible model could shed light on mental ...

Many people, including researchers and people who are simply interested in animal behavior, have written off queer sexual behavior in nonhuman animals for any number of reasons, including that it is ...

As adorable, loyal, and loving as dogs are, they are still animals with natural instincts. Just because they live inside our homes and are spoiled rotten, does not mean they won't act like the animals ...

Animals have evolved some truly bizarre behaviors, and even after decades of research and the aid of modern technology, scientists still don’t fully understand many of them. Some actions appear based ...