Inequality is not unique to human groups and societies. Individuals with relatively little power possess a variety of ...

Beyond factors like genetics and environment, animal personality is also shaped by something more fundamental: the species ...

Roads, cities and farms have reshaped much of the natural world. For decades, scientists believed those physical changes ...

Scientists discovered that Iberian lynxes dunk their prey underwater, rewriting everything we know about wild cat intelligence and culture.

After decades of development, wildlife surveillance has finally come of age. The new Icarus satellite is tracking signals hidden in animal behaviour – which could save the lives of cheetahs, rhinos ...

The meat paradox has made it incredibly difficult to make progress on the factory farming problem, which harms hundreds of billions of animals around the globe each year. But some research-backed ...

The behavior of animals, referred to as “animal personalities,” and their level of interaction with humans ultimately determines how long they live and if they have offspring. In one example, ...

Scientists have recorded same-sex behavior across many animal groups, including mammals, birds, and reptiles. Still, the meaning of that behavior depends on the species and the context. Behavior that ...

A perspective in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface argues that advances in AI, sensing technologies and modeling are transforming the study of collective animal behavior, with implications ...

Conservationists warn that increasingly realistic AI-generated wildlife images and videos are spreading misinformation that can provoke fear, panic and hostility toward wild animals. Fake footage ...

A tiger walks the same worn groove along the edge of its exhibit like a broken record. A parrot methodically plucks out its own feathers until bare skin shows through. To a casual visitor, these can ...

What makes us human? What (if anything) sets us apart from all other creatures? Ever since Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution, the answer to these questions has pointed us back to our own animal ...