Humans have climbed to the top of the food chain by skillfully hunting, trapping, and fishing for other animals at scales that far exceed other predators, altering how the animals behave and earning ...

Amidst this crisis, machine learning has emerged as a potential solution to these limitations, offering continuous, non-invasive monitoring that can operate across the full daily cycle of animals, ...

I've been studying various aspects of animal behavior, especially in mammals, for many decades and have always felt uneasy about how cultural values have limited our true understanding of the dynamics ...

For decades, sharks have been cast as the ultimate solitary predators — cold, instinct-driven “killing machines” that roam ...

The urban monkeys in New Delhi are so bold they’ll steal the lunch right off your plate. If you’ve spent time in New York, ...

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 ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Wow! You study animal behavior. So cool!

Some of the foundational studies in the field were neither ethical by today’s standards nor replicable. But we can do better. Unfortunately for both the field and the dogs themselves, the truth is ...

Mother monkeys permanently separated from their newborns sometimes find comfort in plush toys; this recent finding from Harvard experiments has set off intense controversy among scientists and ...