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Outdoor recreation is booming across the US, but research shows that the presence of humans – or the trails they hike and ski on – can have harmful effects on wildlife at less-than-close range.
According to a veterinarian, the behavior some people call ‘kneading the dough’ or ‘making biscuits’ is a clue your cat feels comfortable around you.
By measuring how and when elephant seals sleep, researchers were able to figure out how elephant seals change their risk-taking behavior as they gain weight.
The noise from the lungs drowns out other species’ calls, letting the females hear potential mates.
Arctic foxes have a few special talents that help them sneak up on unseen prey and pounce.
A new study found some dogs learn the name of a new object after hearing it only four times.
A trace fossil of an iguana burrow was discovered on San Salvador Island in the Bahamas. Estimated to be 115,000 years old, it is the first known fossil of its kind.
Using distance to avoid getting sick has deep evolutionary roots for humans and many other species.
Faced with uncertain and anxious times, brains send out instructions to start stockpiling supplies – whether you’re a person facing a pandemic, or a rodent prepping for a long winter.
Kea were able to correctly guess the most probable scenarios, by evaluating various physical and social cues. Previously, only great apes and humans were known to be able to understand probability.
A swarm of honeybees can provide valuable lessons about how a group of many individuals can work together to accomplish a task, even with no one in charge. Roboticists are taking notes.
A quirk of psychology that affects the way people learn from others may have helped unlock the complicated technologies and rituals that human culture hinges on.
Capuchin monkeys in Brazil use big stones to crush the shells of nuts they want to eat. An experiment in the field investigated how these monkeys prepare to use new, unfamiliar tools.
New research suggests some dinosaurs buried and protected eggs in groups.
Have a cat who just loves to scratch? Declawing is a major surgery that comes with serious long-term side effects – and it might not solve the problem anyway.
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.
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Principal Lecturer in Wildlife Conservation, Nottingham Trent University
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Professor and Associate Head of Psychology, University of Tennessee
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Emeritus Professor in Animal Behaviour, University of New England
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Postdoctoral research fellow, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research
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Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Wyoming
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Associate Professor, School of Animal and Veterinary Science, University of Adelaide
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Professor Emeritus of Behavioral Pharmacology and Animal Behavior, Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, Tufts University
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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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Lecturer, School of Biological Sciences, Monash University
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Affiliate Faculty in Fish, Wildlife and Conservation Biology, Colorado State University
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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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Lecturer in the School of Applied Sciences, Edinburgh Napier University
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PhD Candidate in Ecology in the Department of Fish, Wildlife and Conservation Biology, Colorado State University
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Professor, Department of Classics and Ancient History, University of Sydney
