An international team of researchers have published a new review in Animal Behavior revealing how communication enables cooperation between different animal species. The review, titled "The ecology ...

For conservation scientists at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute, helping animals “swipe right” on the best mate is all in a day’s work. With a mission to save animal ...

From tiger stripes to leopard spots, the animal world is full of distinctive and intricate patterns. In a new study, CU Boulder scientists refined their previous theory of how animal patterns form and ...

Animals don’t wear watches, but they may be able to keep track of time. Learn how they do it. Do nonhuman animals live in a kind of eternal present, or are they aware of the passage of time? That ...

At age seven, sitting at the dinner table with my family, I prodded my fork into a thick, squishy brown shape on my plate. My grandmother, who lived with ...

Human beings are often said to be the only animals who truly have a “mind” in the way that term is commonly used. But that view has been challenged over the past several decades. That challenge arises ...

This article was originally featured on Knowable Magazine. Isaac Newton would never have discovered the laws of motion had he studied only cats. Suppose you hold a cat, stomach up, and drop it from a ...

Source: Gratisography, Pexels, free download. I recently learned of a wide-ranging book by award-winning Canadian lawyer and educator Victoria Shroff titled Canadian Animal Law that caught my interest ...