animal behaviour

Over the last fifty years, long-term studies following individual animals over entire lifespans have allowed insight into the evolutionary influence...

Urban birds are less afraid of litter than their country cousins, according to a new study, which suggests they may learn that litter in cities is...

Shrinking habitat, increased conflict projected in regions critical to survival of threatened apex predators.

The largest quantitative study of howling, and first to use machine learning, defines different howl types and finds that wolves use these types more...

David Norman (Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences) discusses how palaeontologists can interpret fossil footprints to find clues as to whether dinosaurs...

New research shows beetles that received no care as larvae were less effective at raising a large brood as parents. Males paired with ‘low quality’...

The Cambridge Animal Alphabet series celebrates Cambridge's connections with animals through literature, art, science and society. Here, J is for Jay...

Juvenile zebra finches that experience high stress levels will ignore how their own parents forage and instead learn such skills from other...