Animal behaviour encompasses a vast spectrum of actions and reactions by organisms as they interact with their environment and each other. Drawing on insights from classical ethology, behavioural ...

Two species meet for the first time, and the result is a living experiment in animal behavior. By using food, patience, and observation, the caretaker creates an environment that encourages positive ...

Source: University of Chicago Press/with permission. For many years, Lee Alan Dugatkin, a prolific author and leading researcher in animal behavior, has been one of my "go-to-guys" for learning about ...

Accurate quantification of multi-animal behavior plays a pivotal role in unraveling the intricacies of animal social interactions with far-reaching applications in neuroscience and ecology. In a study ...

As a career ethologist, I was thrilled when I learned about Dr. Matthew Calarco's new and highly original book titled The Three Ethologies: A Positive Vision for Rebuilding Human-Animal Relationships.

When Ambika Kamath was a graduate student in evolutionary biology at Harvard University, she knew one thing for sure: She wasn’t going to research anoles, the lizards that her adviser, Jonathan Losos, ...

professor in the Department of Biology teaches courses on introductory biology and animal behavior research interests include animal social behavior and animal sociality (how and why animals live in ...

How do animal behavior researchers feel about the feelings of animals? A new survey helps to answer that question. The journal Royal Society Open Science published a survey of 100 researchers of ...

Social hierarchies are everywhere—think of high school dramas, where the athletes are portrayed as the most popular, or large ...

Science has treated same-sex sexual behavior as an “evolutionary conundrum” because it (generally) doesn’t help animals to reproduce, thus ensuring that their genes get passed down and their species ...