Understanding how genes influence complex behaviors remains one of biology's most fascinating challenges. Now, however, in a recent study, researchers have compiled a comprehensive dataset documenting ...

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 ...

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

A perspective in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface argues that advances in AI, sensing technologies and modeling are transforming the study of collective animal behavior, with implications ...

I've been studying various aspects of animal behavior, especially in mammals, for many decades and have always felt uneasy about how cultural values have limited our true understanding of the dynamics ...

The persistent presence of humans and their infrastructure in U.S. national parks has yielded dramatic changes in the behaviors of large animals who live there, a new study has found. Even during the ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Wow! You study animal behavior. So cool!