What happens to pets when families are separated? When caregivers are detained, animals are left behind, often with ...

Guest Opinion. Altruism is helping without a benefit and sometimes at a risk to one’s self. Animals helping others of their own species makes sense to perpetuate the species or help continue their own ...

Incidents that make us consider the relationship between humans and wild animals are happening all over Japan, from bear ...

Carnivores, typically more active at night, became more active during the day when tourists were present. Herbivores, in response, shifted their waterhole visits to nighttime, potentially increasing ...

Guest Opinion. It is time for animal behavior to become its own academic discipline. The Animal Behavior Society argues that animal behavior is a discipline within psychology and biology, but that ...

When a curious raccoon broke into an Ashland, Virginia, liquor store in December 2025, sampled the stock and passed out on ...

Same-sex behavior is widespread in primates and may help strengthen social bonds and improve survival under challenging ...

Humans aren’t the only animals with hot tempers. In 2016, ecologist Kristen Cecala and a colleague watched black-bellied salamanders (Desmognathus amphileucus) from Appalachian streams lunge at one ...