While exploring the forest, I came across a pair of mandrills quietly grooming each other. At first, they didn’t notice me at ...

Animal survival depends on effective attack and defense strategies, yet how these behaviors arise remains unclear. Addressing ...

The UC Board of Regents approved the dismissal of a tenured UCLA professor Wednesday. Priyanga Amarasekare, an ecology and ...

The Social Mammals Lab at UW-Eau Claire is conducting research into what exactly is stressing out beavers. The lab, ...

"It's such a pinnacle park. It's such a known place and such a huge operation that it really requires somebody that comes in at the top of their game. Cam certainly did that," Mills said.

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

Only a few hours earlier, a shark knocked an 11-year-old boy into the water at Dee Why—just north of Manly—and bit a chunk ...

As animals go about their lives ― eating, fighting, having babies ― they don’t always follow the script laid out for them by ...

Garter snakes can survive being frozen solid for hours. Here’s how evolution, biochemistry and behavior have allowed them to ...

From bold foxes to gregarious birds, animals’ personalities are increasingly being seen as crucial to conservation efforts.

Nonhuman primates like bonobos and chimpanzees might engage in same-sex sexual activities to strengthen bonds, particularly ...

A new study posits that same-sex sexual behavior developed to help primates in complex social groups ease tension, reduce ...