Animals often rely on instincts and strategies that look shocking to human eyes. These behaviors can involve unusual hunting methods, unsettling defenses, or ways of surviving that seem harsh by our ...

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 ...

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Researchers from the Cluster of Excellence Collective Behavior have introduced the method YOLO-Behaviour: a new computer vision framework to automatically identify animal behaviors from videos. The ...

In the natural world -- where predators pounce, prey flee, and group members feed and sleep in solidarity -- animal behavior is glorious in its variety. Now, new research suggests there may be an ...

Homosexual behavior is much more common across the animal kingdom than we first thought, new research has found. Scientists found that 78 percent of animal behavior experts had seen some degree of ...

A total solar eclipse will be visible in North America today. Animals may start acting weirdly as the moon blocks out the sun. Scientists aren't completely sure how eclipses affect animal behavior.

Less than a week from now, when the sun partially disappears behind Long Island's moon — and entirely in places like upstate New York — many of the Earth's creatures will react to the eclipse. Not all ...