This octopus behavior might look funny at first glance, but it reveals how evolution solves complex problems in unexpected ways.

As the sun rises over the Kalahari Desert, meerkat groups emerge from their burrows and gather closely, turning their bodies toward the warmth of the early light. These quiet morning moments are more ...

The fact that primates other than humans engage in homosexual behavior is well-documented. A recent study in Nature Ecology & ...

A research team from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology has shown in a new study that ants returning from habitats ...

The African wildcat is considered the closest wild ancestor of modern house cats, but its path to domestication was unlike ...

A new study documents the complex interactions between cougars and gray wolves in Yellowstone National Park and finds their ...

Terrorist attacks, whether by individuals or groups, are usually followed by attempts to explain the rationale and causes behind them. The core reasons, ...

Crows are no match for a larger predator like a hawk. So why is their mobbing behavior not met with an attack?

On a remote Alaskan island, gray wolves are rewriting the rulebook by hunting sea otters — a behavior few scientists ever expected to see. Researchers are now uncovering how these coastal wolves ...

Q. Why don't hawks fight back when crows mob them? They seem almost indifferent to the attacks, like one I saw yesterday. He ...

Take a leisurely look around the animal kingdom, and you will find some indisputable instances of play. There are plenty of viral videos that show baby elephants and bears rolling around in the mud ...

New research shows that the mere smell of predators is enough to change deer behavior and limit browsing damage to tree saplings. The findings, published in the Journal of Applied Ecology, offer a ...