Humans tend to fear bed bugs, and rightly so. The bloodsuckers are tough to get rid of once they've entered a home. But new ...

No natural phenomenon provides a rarer chance to study the secrets of the animal world than a total solar eclipse. This was recently demonstrated by researchers investigating how a total solar eclipse ...

BENEZETTE — The Elk Country Visitor Center will host public programs in the month of February 2026. Enjoy this “valentine-theme” PowerPoint presentation on various species of animals world-wide that ...

The sound most commonly associated with happiness in cats—the purr—may actually reveal more about a cat’s identity, personality and mood than meowing does, a study has found.. Researchers led from ...

Cats meow more at owners who are men than women, new research has found, possibly because men tend to be more aloof when it comes to giving their pets attention. Led by a team from Ankara University ...

As many cat owners will testify, their pets are often mysterious creatures, independent, cunning and sometimes aloof. And now it appears that when it comes to communication, they might be playing ...

in a shark attack off the coast of Hadera in Israel in April was an atypical incident, likely caused by an instinctive response that triggered a feeding frenzy, scientists said. In a research paper ...

A group of researchers based in Hungary dedicated almost a year to learning about dogs and how they communicate—and whether the animals could ever learn to speak. Ethologist Tamás Faragó and collegues ...

Ethology has been, and still is, much more than just trying to understand why and how animals do what they do: it is a universe of theoretical and methodological approaches. From a historical point of ...

ABSTRACT: This paper presents a literature review on the concept of cooperation, tracing its development through three stages: biological/genetic, societal, and internal. Using a descriptive and ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. The International Council of Ethologists (ICE) was born soon after the second World War when several prominent ethologists of the day, from both ...

Adult Cooper’s hawk dispatching a house sparrow. Image: Vladimir Dinets. Dr Vladimir Dinets, a research assistant professor at the University of Tennessee, is a zoologist who studies animal behavior, ...