The investigation of affective states and cognitive bias in animal behaviour has emerged as a critical area of research, shedding light on how emotional states influence decision-making, perception ...

A tiger walks the same worn groove along the edge of its exhibit, like a broken record. A parrot methodically plucks out its ...

Daniel T. Blumstein receives funding from the National Science Foundation. He is chief editor of Frontiers in Conservation Science. Catherine Price receives funding from the Australian Research ...

Every year, researchers and people out in nature capture some aspect of animal behavior that’s unusual or unexpected in some way, changing how we understand the natural world. For the first time, ...

Several years ago, Christian Rutz started to wonder whether he was giving his crows enough credit. Rutz, a biologist at the University of St. Andrews, in Scotland, and his team were capturing wild New ...

Pattern images merge outlines of an organism’s position at different timepoints to depict movement, providing a still image that increases LabGym’s accuracy in recognizing behavior types. Shown are ...

Neurobiology researchers Sam Golden and Nastacia Goodwin review light sheet fluorescent microscopy brain images revealing the activity of individual neurons during different behaviors. They are in a ...

Studying nonhuman animal behavior to determine how it applies to all behaviors, including human behaviors, warrants asking about purpose. If we are asking what all behaviors have in common, then it is ...

Every year, researchers and people out in nature capture some aspect of animal behavior that’s unusual or unexpected in some way, changing how we understand the natural world. Here are five such ...

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 ...