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The mating habits of these tiny, colorful fish may be revealing something broader about the animal kingdom, and perhaps even our own desires.
After Google suggested PigeonRank was at the root of its search function, a group of researchers put a small flock of the birds to a different classification test in real life.
Can animals find the beat in music and dance along?
How the zebra got its stripes is not only a just-so story, but an object of scientific inquiry. New research suggests that stripes help zebras evade biting flies and the deadly diseases they carry.
A new statistical test lets researchers search for similarities between groups. Could this help keep new important findings out of the file drawer?
Worker naked mole-rats take care of their colony’s young even though they aren’t the pups’ actual parents. New research suggests the queen gets them ready via hormones in her poop.
Cells that transmit nerve impulses in the part of elephants’ brains responsible for functions such as learning and memory are structured differently from those of any other mammal.
Everybody does it, but why? Scientists aren’t really sure if exhaustion, stress or some other social factor is at the root of yawning – and how it can be so contagious.
Starting with two simple sheepdog rules, the robot then began to display new, unprogrammed behaviour.
Birds can usually sense when they are not feeling well and like many other creatures, seem to seek out-of-the-way places to be alone.
Our work with the BBC’s Animals With Cameras showed one family of meerkats had excavated a huge tangle of tunnels.
Magpies have long memories, and human behaviour towards them largely determines how they respond
Sometimes a dog can have very good reasons for hating its humans.
Researchers identified simple behavioral rules that allow these tiny creatures to collaboratively build elaborate structures, with no one in charge.
Twitter recently blew up with posts wondering about the feline fascination with taped squares on the ground. An animal behavior expert explains it’s not magic that draws Fluffy to the #CatSquare.
New research into how wasps divide up their jobs shows how economics can be key to understanding animal behaviour.
For a long time it was not believed that animals were even capable of feeling pain, let alone complex emotions. We now know that is far from the truth.
Realizing that others’ minds hold different thoughts, feelings and knowledge than your own was thought to be something only people could do. But evidence is accumulating that apes, too, have ‘theory of mind.’
Man-made noise changes the way animals respond to danger – but prairie dogs have a surprising reaction.
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Associate Professor, School of Animal and Veterinary Science, Adelaide University
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Principal Lecturer in Wildlife Conservation, Nottingham Trent University
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Professor Emeritus of Behavioral Pharmacology and Animal Behavior, Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, Tufts University
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Affiliate Faculty in Fish, Wildlife and Conservation Biology, Colorado State University
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Research Fellow, School of Biological Sciences, Monash University
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Staff Scientist, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Smithsonian Institution
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Senior Lecturer in Zoology, Bangor University
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Senior Lecturer in Animal Science, Nottingham Trent University
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Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Wyoming
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Postdoctoral research fellow, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research
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Emeritus Professor in Animal Behaviour, University of New England
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Professor and Associate Head of Psychology, University of Tennessee
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Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, University of California, Los Angeles
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Professor of Neuroscience, Cognition and Behavior, University of San Diego
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Researcher, Animal Behaviour, Welfare and Anthrozoology Lab, Adelaide University