Horses detect human fear through smell alone and exhibit fearful behavior through emotional contagion mechanism.

Trust me. This is going to be a rave review for a new book about animal-human communication by naturalist, filmmaker, and writer Tom Mustill. But first .... I read a lot of pop-sci books about animal ...

A perspective in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface argues that advances in AI, sensing technologies and modeling are ...

Researchers from INRAE and IFCE have demonstrated that fear-related human chemical cues influence horse behaviour through ...

Urbanization represents a significant shift in landscape, habitat composition , and human-built structures, with profound ...

Dolphins exhibit one of the most sophisticated forms of animal communication, employing a diverse vocal repertoire that includes frequency‐modulated whistles, burst-pulses, and other signal types.

Nonhuman animals (animals) are constantly "talking" with one another using sounds, smells, visual signals, and various combinations thereof. In his fascinating new book titled Why Animals Talk: The ...

Honesty survives because exaggeration often leads to worse outcomes later, even when lying seems easy at first.

Sexual and kin selection in animals: Female mate choice in rodents / Jörns Fickel and Alexandra Weyrich. Extra-pair paternity and sexual selection / Emmi Schlicht and Bart Kempenaers. Male ...

A tiger walks the same worn groove along the edge of its exhibit, like a broken record. A parrot methodically plucks out its own feathers until bare skin shows through. To a casual visitor, these can ...

They're looking out for you, even when they're not around. Everyone loves their animals — whether you have cats, dogs, or fish, they’re right alongside you every day, cheering you on. It’s a ...

There are many forms of animal communication. In the lyrics of Let’s Do It, Cole Porter celebrated the diversity of signals that birds, bees, oysters, clams, sponges, and electric eels produce to ...