animal behavior

This story originally appeared in High Country News and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.The first grainy…

What a decades-long debate over animals' ability to imagine the future reveals about science, humanity, and…

Technologists want to recreate the sensitivity of certain animals to the subtle signals of impending danger in…

This article was originally published in Knowable Magazine.Several years ago, Christian Rutz started to wonder…

Digital listening is becoming the most powerful new scientific tool for observing and preserving our natural…

If you think your dog loves you, you’re a fool. If you feel a kinship with a tree, you’re a hippie. And if you…

For the current study, Tombak, then a PhD candidate at Princeton, and her team wanted to test stripe width to see…

A similar scenario played out in the 1990s, when a Tennessee naturalist named Lynn Faust read the confident…

Black widows must despise Clint Sergi. While working on his PhD in biology at the University of…

So neuroscientists use an approach called “dimensionality reduction” to make such visualization possible—they take…