Homosexual behavior is much more common across the animal kingdom than we first thought, new research has found. Scientists found that 78 percent of animal behavior experts had seen some degree of ...

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 ...

Never underestimate the mind of a crow. Members of a family of birds that includes ravens, rooks, magpies, and jays, crows have been known to bend wire into hooks to retrieve food; drop nuts in a road ...

A dog gives a protective bark, sensing a nearby stranger. A cat slinks by disdainfully, ignoring anyone and everyone. A cow moos in contentment, chewing its cud. At least, that’s what we may think ...

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 ...

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 ...

Can bullying behavior ever be stopped? For the last half decade or more our attention to the very real suffering that bullying causes has led to an entire industry focused on “bullies.” Yet for all ...

Scientists studying the behavior of wild octopuses off the coast of Australia have made a strange discovery, with the creatures caught hurling silt, algae and even shells at one another. The finding ...