Scientists have captured a rare view of one of the ocean's least understood whales—without ever seeing it. By listening to ...

Elephants have long unsettled and fascinated observers with what looks uncannily like a funeral rite, lingering over ...

“Our study shows that physiological concentrations of hormones and neurotransmitters can serve as biomarkers of canine temperament,” the team writes. “These results could help identify dogs suited for ...

They sometimes touched their lips together, breathed into one another’s open mouths, or stood on two legs and hugged.

In his book “The Intimate Animal,” sex and relationships researcher Justin Garcia says people have miscalculated their need ...

People searching for honey in Mozambique work with birds via a shared language in a rare case of cooperation between humans ...

Death is a part of life, but some animals are more in tune with loss and grief than others. Horses are one of those species ...

The doctoral candidate at Duke University is employing new whale-tagging technology to reveal highly detailed information about pilot whale hunting habits, answering old questions about the specifics ...

A perspective in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface argues that advances in AI, sensing technologies and modeling are ...

Abigail Morris first visited the Peruvian Amazon when she was 6 years old. Now, as a Ph.D. candidate in the Animal Behavior ...

Scientists have long focused on quantifying fear and other negative emotions in animals. Now they’re trying to measure ...

While there’s plenty of research to suggest that pet owners, specifically dog owners, are often happier than non-pet owners, there’s much less content investigating dog behaviors and happiness on a ...