See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Homosexual behavior is much more common across the animal kingdom than ...

A team of anthropologists and biologists from Canada, Poland, and the U.S., working with researchers at the American Museum of Natural History, in New York, has found via meta-analysis of data from ...

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 ...

Humans are far from the only primates engaging in same-sex sexual activity. A new study found instances in which 59 nonhuman primate species, including bonobos, chimpanzees and macaques, have taken ...

It's not only humans that do some sketchy, questionable stuff. Animals in the wild have their own peculiarities, too, and these weird animal behaviors usually don't go unnoticed. And by weird, we ...

It seems reasonable to me that “unselfish” behavior in animals or humans can be similarly and variously explained by some combination of altruism, protective instincts, and reciprocal behavior. Why ...

Understanding how genes influence complex behaviors remains one of biology's most fascinating challenges. Now, however, in a recent study, researchers have compiled a comprehensive dataset documenting ...

Many people, including researchers and people who are simply interested in animal behavior, have written off queer sexual behavior in nonhuman animals for any number of reasons, including that it is ...

The Atlantic reached out to a behavioral ecologist at the University of Cincinnati to learn more about attitudes scientists have about anthropomorphism in animal science. Anthropomorphism is the ...

Sean Ehlman will join USC’s Department of Biological Sciences in January 2026, bringing expertise in animal behavior and evolutionary ecology. His work investigates how animals develop individualized ...