Heat waves do more than just generate high temperatures and cause excessive sweat. Research shows that heat affects animal ...

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior recently launched a satellite system called Icarus that tracks ...

When large and warty cane toads were first brought to Australia nearly 100 years ago, they had a simple mission: to gobble up beetles and other pests in the sugarcane fields. Today, though, the toads ...

A new large-scale study led by a research team from the Yale Center for Biodiversity and Global Change has found that ...

Over 80 percent of the world’s population is currently heating up for summer, and with it comes the realization that many of ...

Animal behavior research relies on careful observation of animals. Researchers might spend months in a jungle habitat watching tropical birds mate and raise their young. They might track the rates of ...

In May 2011, biologists with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game strapped a prototype camera collar onto a brown bear in ...

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.

What role does environmental settings play in behavior? This is what a recent study published in Scientific Reports hopes to address as an international team of researchers investigated behaviors ...

Animals living in cities are consistently bolder, more aggressive, and less fearful of humans than their rural counterparts.

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 ...