animal behavior

How to decode your cat's meows, body language, and baffling behaviors.

People from Hubei Province, the epicenter of coronavirus outbreak, reported sightings of unusual animal behavior in Hubei, such ...

When playing the Ultimatum Game, chimpanzees can figure out how to cooperate with their partners and share the ...

Even while growing inside their egg cases, some embryonic sharks keep very still when predators are nearby to ...

Miniature spiders have been discovered in Peru that create large fake spiders in their webs.

Thorny seahorses, Hippocampus histrix, inhabit sandy and reef substrates in the Western Pacific.

Singing while eating isn’t recommended for humans, but humpback whales have been recorded doing so in a new ...

The songs of male zebra finches may not always be truthful, according to new international research.

The painted frogfish, Antennarius pictus, is also known as the painted anglerfish because it uses a lure to ...

Termites can indicate the location of undiscovered deposits of gold and other metals, according to new Australian research.

A species of coral in Fiji calls on goby fish to rescue it when under attack by a ...

Female superb fairy-wrens, Malurus cyaneus, teach their unhatched chicks a unique note that later allows the parents to ...

A Goffin's cockatoo has been observed making and using tools to reach objects, including food.

A new U.K. study of bumblebee foraging behavior has shown these insects may be following simple rules to ...

Bones from small flying dinosaurs have been discovered in the stomach of Sinocalliopteryx gigas, a raptor-like bipedal dinosaur ...

One thousand internationally protected wood ants will be fitted with tiny radio receivers to understand how they communicate ...

For three weeks during the Arctic summer, the sun never sets–if a male sandpiper doesn’t sleep as much, ...

Research finds that dolphins that use sponges to protect their snouts while hunting on the seafloor prefer to ...

The seed-dispersing role of a large mammal family that died out in the Pleistocene may have been adopted ...

Wolverines may use crevices in snow-covered areas to store food for times of need, rendering them vulnerable to ...

Bats’ roosting habits during hibernation could affect their susceptibility to a fatal fungal disease, according to a new ...

Small rodent-like animals called hyraxes produce vocalizations that provide details of an individual's traits, such as age, status, ...

The seeds of the taily weed contain a mustard bomb that causes the Cairo spiny mouse to spit ...

A Kenyan species of jumping spider, Evarcha culicivora, prefers snacking on engorged female Anopheles mosquitoes and detects them ...

Gouldian finches, Erythrura gouldiae, have red, black, or occasionally yellow heads. They inhabit tropical savanna woodlands, and feed ...