Humans have climbed to the top of the food chain by skillfully hunting, trapping, and fishing for other animals at scales that far exceed other predators, altering how the animals behave and earning ...

The human ability to cook may seem ordinary, but it marks one of the most important evolutionary turning points in our ...

A biologist has been studying animals like hedgehogs and chimpanzees and has found evidence of a secret language that mammals ...

Humans aren’t the only animals with hot tempers. In 2016, ecologist Kristen Cecala and a colleague watched black-bellied salamanders (Desmognathus amphileucus) from Appalachian streams lunge at one ...

Polar bear encounters with humans are a regular concern for scientists and communities near polar bear habitats, but new research is showing the bears' reasons for coming in contact with humans might ...

Why city wildlife around the world act the same and what this behavioral shift means for conservation and human-animal ...

Behavioral health in veterinary medicine is often treated as an afterthought, something to address only when a problem arises ...