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In many animals, including humans, adverse events in youth have lasting negative health effects over the life span. But new research suggests something different is going on in mountain gorillas.
Giraffes are the latest animals to show they can solve tasks using statistical reasoning – and the only one to do this with a small brain relative to body size.
A Steller’s sea eagle, native to the Asian Arctic, has traveled across North America since 2021. A scholar questions whether the bird is lost – and how well humans really understand animals’ actions.
Orangutans, gorillas and chimpanzees seem to enjoy the buzz of getting dizzy.
Think your social life is complicated? Consider the wasp.
Researchers explore what happens when ants can’t properly use smell to detect friend from foe.
Honeybees possess one of the most complex examples of nonhuman communication. New research suggests that it is learned and culturally passed down from older to younger bees.
It’s endearing to think of these glamorous pink birds finding the friendship group they fit into. But navigating flamingo social lives can help with conservation too.
Your cat may not be as excited about a new arrival as you are. Gradual and controlled introductions will help your cat take to an unfamiliar animal.
The old UK dog licence system wasn’t fit for purpose. But there is another way.
The only other species known to do this are humans and chimpanzees.
Scientists are learning that diversity has many perks – whether in multispecies groups of animals or human society.
Life can be a struggle for power – not just for people but for nonhuman animals, too. An animal behaviorist explains how this quest can be more Shakespearean drama than boxing match.
A proposed scientific name is frenetic random activity periods (FRAPs). In rabbits, these high activity periods are called ‘binkies’. But many cat and dog-owners simply call them ‘zoomies’.
Rats are disrupting the flow of nutrients towards the sea on many tropical islands – this has consequences for fish behaviour and the wider ecosystem.
Artificial lighting from cities illuminates coastal waters and can change the physiology and behaviour of marine organisms.
Scientists use biologging devices to track animal behaviour – here are four times where it has improved our understanding of nature.
A scholar of law and humanities compares bans on dogs with any pit bull genes to “one drop” laws that once classified people with even a single Black ancestor as Black.
Friendships are formed all across the animal kingdom and the ways in which they resemble human ones may surprise you.
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Principal Lecturer in Wildlife Conservation, Nottingham Trent University
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Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Wyoming
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Professor Emeritus of Behavioral Pharmacology and Animal Behavior, Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, Tufts University
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Postdoctoral research fellow, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research
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Associate Professor, School of Animal and Veterinary Science, University of Adelaide
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Affiliate Faculty in Fish, Wildlife and Conservation Biology, Colorado State University
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Emeritus Professor in Animal Behaviour, University of New England
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Lecturer in Zoology, Bangor University
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Senior Lecturer in Animal Science, Nottingham Trent University
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Lecturer, School of Biological Sciences, Monash University
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Lecturer in the School of Applied Sciences, Edinburgh Napier University
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Professor, Department of Classics and Ancient History, University of Sydney
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Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, University of California, Los Angeles
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PhD Candidate in Ecology in the Department of Fish, Wildlife and Conservation Biology, Colorado State University
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Assistant Professor of Bioinformatics and Integrative Biology, UMass Chan Medical School
