Tag: animal behavior

Male domination is the natural order of things, some people say. But bonobos, primates with whom we share nearly 99 ...

In 2018, a study made headlines when it found that a captive orca, or killer whale, was able to imitate ...

Australia’s giant kangaroos of yesteryear were likely homebodies — and that inclination ultimately did them in.The massive marsupial megaherbivores, which, ...

Dogs aren’t just our pets. We also see them as our friends and family members. But do we get the ...

David Kaplan has been working with silk for decades, molding and shaping it into scaffolds, sponges, and films. His lab, ...

Pinpointing when animals became our companions is harder than it sounds. Every fossil find and genetic study tweaks what we ...

Humans love to take liberties when we talk about our heights. But Afruca tangeri fiddler crabs don’t have that luxury. ...

Humans are adept combiners. As it turns out, so, too, are bonobos. According to a new study in Science, bonobos ...

After listening to hundreds of hours of ape calls, a team of scientists say they have detected a hallmark of ...

It sounds like a paleontological crime scene: dozens of ancient amphibian fossils found buried relatively close together. The bones of ...