When hikers hit the trails in Rocky Mountain National Park on a busy summer Saturday, the elk do not simply stand there and ...

Up to two-thirds of species are changing their behavioral patterns in response to seeing people in their natural environment.

A new large-scale study led by a research team from the Yale Center for Biodiversity and Global Change has found that ...

A global analysis has found that urban animals are bolder and more aggressive, exploratory and active than their rural ...

Binge eating, especially on high-fat, high-sugar foods, can rewire the brain and alter behavior, leading to compulsive food-seeking and a greater likelihood of overeating instead of under-eating when ...

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 ...

A new study shows that wildlife reacts not only to roads and cities, but also to the daily presence of humans.

Scientists let cats pick between plants, catnip and silver vine, and almost every cat went straight for the silver vine.

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 ...

UNO students in Rose Strasser’s animal behavior lab study dog cortisol and early environments while gaining hands-on research ...