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

A recent study from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) reveals that, despite their outsized ecological impact ...

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

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

Deep in the forests of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, a story of animal intelligence and social cooperation has unfolded over ...

Olfaction is the sense most widely used by animals to communicate. Although this sense has been studied mainly in the context of reproduction within a ...

They sometimes touched their lips together, breathed into one another’s open mouths, or stood on two legs and hugged.

Professor Claudia Wascher is set to deliver an inaugural lecture exploring what it means to be social at Anglia Ruskin ...

A viral clip shows a caracal swiveling its massive ears independently—and scientists say those movements are key.

Which animal is known as the Gentle Giant? Discover why the elephant holds this title, along with its behaviour, intelligence ...

Animal names often sound precise, but many are the result of early guesswork that never got corrected. Explorers, naturalists ...

The doctoral candidate at Duke University is employing new whale-tagging technology to reveal highly detailed information about pilot whale hunting habits, answering old questions about the specifics ...