animal behavior

Whoever thought animals would be able to prevent accidents? According to a recent study published in ‘Current Biology’…

Illustration: ZME Science. On scorching days in South Africa’s Kalahari, female southern pied babblers can have trouble solving…

Shark-mounted cameras reveal that whale sharks feed far beyond the surface, using diverse strategies from shallow krill pursuits…

Accumulative stone throwing is a rare, potentially cultural, behavior that has been observed among four groups of wild…

The great bowerbirds of northern Australia are well-known for their elaborate tunnels, known as bowers. Pieced together for…

Habitus of isopods collected during aggregative behavior in Eliad. Credit: Idan Sheizaf, Ariel Chipman, and Eviatar Itzkovich Artificial…

Humans do not have to cut down trees or build roads to disrupt wildlife. Their mere presence in…

Two ravens soar above a wolf pack in Yellowstone. This type of short-distance following is common, but prolonged…

Researchers studying nearly 900 parrots found evidence that some birds may use names to refer to specific people…

In the turquoise waters off La Ventana, a sleepy coastal town on Mexico’s Baja peninsula, Claudio Rios, 41,…

Webfoot octopus (Amphioctopus fangsiao) male with its mating arm curled up (upper left). Credit: Keijiro Haruki For an…

Kanzi, a language-trained bonobo, identified and tracked pretend objects across tea party-like experiments, marking the first controlled…

In Washington, Pumas are protecting human lives by preventing vehicle collisions accounting for a 76% reduction in accidents