It is time for animal behavior to become its own academic discipline. The Animal Behavior Society argues that animal behavior ...

Researchers model and map how neurons across the tiny brain of a C. elegans worm encode its behaviors, revealing many new insights about the robustness and flexibility of its nervous system. To ...

Science and common sense show diverse animals are feeling beings who care about what happens to themselves and others, and ...

This post is in response to The Eclectic Father of Cognitive Ethology By Marc Bekoff Ph.D. Source: Jeffrey Eisen/Pexels. A growing number of people, including academics and non-academic folks, are ...

(A) Displays the movement of a mouse's 3D action skeleton over time, with each color representing a standardized behavior repertoire (e.g., walking, standing). (B) Once the behavior embedding space is ...

Drastic declines in biodiversity due to human activities present risks to understanding animal behaviors such as tool use, according to new research. Shrinking animal populations make the study of ...

Behavioral analysis can provide a lot of information about the health status or motivations of a living being. A new technology developed at EPFL makes it possible for a single deep learning model to ...

Pets were once dismissed as trivial scientific subjects. Today, companion animal science is hot. Max, a 2-year-old German shepherd, Belgian Malinois and husky mix, was rescued in an emaciated ...