Every year, researchers and people out in nature capture some aspect of animal behavior that’s unusual or unexpected in some way, changing how we understand the natural world. Here are five such ...

Studies show that animals living in urban environments around the world exhibit common sets of behaviors. At the same time, ...

Animal behaviour often appears strange when viewed through a human lens, yet careful research frequently reveals that unusual actions serve clear biological functions. In 2025, several peer-reviewed ...

The study of animal behavior is a cornerstone of psychology for several reasons. Ethology, or the study of animals in their natural habitats, sheds light on how animals interact with each other and ...

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 team from the University of Michigan has developed a new software tool to help researchers across the life sciences more efficiently analyze animal behaviors. The open-source software, LabGym, ...