Mistreating a dog may come back to bite you. Scientists have long known that childhood abuse, neglect, and trauma can have ...

During the height of the COVID pandemic, headline stories were peppered with photos of deserted streets from the world’s largest metropolises. Universities quickly began to resemble ghost towns, as ...

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 ...

A series of studies on various animals' behaviors all point to the same thing: hotter temperatures lead to more aggressive behavior. In 2016, researchers from The University of the South in Sewanee, ...

Editor’s note: Dr. Lee Pickett has retires, but Creators continues to distribute columns from her archive. This is from 2020. Q: Harley, my 3-year-old bulldog mix, doesn’t go to the veterinarian often ...

A new study shows that parakeets will test the waters before trying to make friends, a behavior humans can use.

Human-driven climate change is increasingly shaping the Earth’s living environments. Rising temperatures, rapid shifts in rainfall and seasonality, and ocean acidification are presenting altered ...

You can learn a lot from Isabella Rossellini’s new one-woman show. But “Darwin’s Smile” — the Emmy nominee’s meditation on empathy and its intersection with acting and the study of animal behavior — ...

Science has treated same-sex sexual behavior as an “evolutionary conundrum” because it (generally) doesn’t help animals to reproduce, thus ensuring that their genes get passed down and their species ...