Each year on April 24, scientists, advocates, and policymakers around the world mark World Day for Laboratory Animals—a ...

The largest great ape cognition dataset combines 18 years of studies to reveal patterns in learning, memory, and intelligence ...

A study of wild salmon exposed to cocaine and its metabolite benzoylegonine indicates that concentrations now common in urban ...

Animal behavior research relies on careful observation of animals. Researchers might spend months in a jungle habitat watching tropical birds mate and raise their young. They might track the rates of ...

A new study reveals animals might desire to use technology alongside humans. Lemurs showed a preference for interactive ...

It's easy for students in Elizabeth Hobson's lab at the University of Cincinnati to get attached to their study subjects. The assistant professor in UC's College of Arts and Sciences is a behavioral ...

There is one specific task that stress researchers who conduct animal experiments need to be particularly skilled at. This also applies to researchers who want to improve the conditions in which ...

How do animal behavior researchers feel about the feelings of animals? A new survey helps to answer that question. The journal Royal Society Open Science published a survey of 100 researchers of ...

Understanding intelligence in the animal kingdom isn’t as simple as ranking species from most intelligent to least. There’s ...