From fish scaling waterfalls to monkeys stealing babies these animal discoveries in 2025 revealed how much we still do not ...

Traditional study of animal behavior is a slow, and imprecise process, with human observers spending months, or even years, watching and classifying different actions. A team from Columbia University ...

A list of animated cartoon series that kids who are obsessed with animals can watch to learn about ecosystems, animals and ...

Studying an animal’s behavior can be a real pain for researchers. It takes hours of observing an animal in carefully-designed lab environments, or out in the wild, to glean an ounce of insight into ...

Aquatic organisms exhibit a range of behavioural adaptations when confronted with contaminated environments. In recent decades, research has revealed that both chronic and acute contamination events ...

I started this blog a little over a year ago as a way of exploring the intersection of animal behavior research and human psychology. Research on animal behavior provides a lot of insights for ...

Fitness is a relative concept. It doesn’t matter how well an organism survives and reproduces. It only matters that it survives and reproduces better than alternative types of organisms. Males of some ...

Recently, I came across a helpful article by William Baum (2018) 1 on the “three laws of behavior.” Baum is a behavior analyst who works in the tradition of B. F. Skinner, and the article focuses on ...

Researchers have uncovered compelling evidence that Neanderthals repeatedly deposited horned animal skulls in a Spanish cave over thousands of years, suggesting a culturally transmitted ritual ...