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Guest Opinion. It is time for animal behavior to become its own academic discipline. The Animal Behavior Society argues that ...

On Aug. 21, 2017, a solar eclipse shrouded The Riverbanks Zoo and Garden in Columbia, South Carolina, in near-total darkness for 2½ minutes. In the time leading up to the darkness, during it, and ...

Credit: Sarah Jelbert/PLOS One/CC BY 4.0 Did that crow just figure out how to get food out of that tube? Yeah, it did. What do you notice about what it did before getting the food? Why did it select ...

When a wild orangutan in Sumatra recently suffered a facial wound, apparently after fighting with another male, he did something that caught the attention of the scientists observing him. The animal ...

On Aug. 21, 2017, a solar eclipse shrouded The Riverbanks Zoo and Garden in Columbia, South Carolina, in near-total darkness for 2½ minutes. In the time leading up to the darkness, during it, and ...

In years' past, researchers observed unusual animal behavior at zoos across the nation during a total solar eclipse. Flamingos circled their babies to protect them. Giraffes galloped around their ...

Ask an expert, Are Turtles Social Animals?, and you'll definitly get "No" for an answer. However, this viral turtle video will likely make you reconsider.

Nature enthusiasts work with researchers to figure out how creatures respond to the celestial phenomenon Carlyn Kranking - Associate Web Editor, Science Wide-ranging anecdotal reports and studies ...