A new study posits that same-sex sexual behavior developed to help primates in complex social groups ease tension, reduce ...

Homosexual behavior in primates has a deep evolutionary basis and is more likely to occur in species that live in harsh ...

A new study by researchers at Imperial College London and published on Monday in Nature Ecology & Evolution could help shed ...

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

AMES, Iowa – Iowa State University Anthropology Professor Jill Pruetz long suspected that man-made changes influenced the aggressive behavior researchers have observed among chimpanzees. However, her ...

Danger in nature does not always come with a warning. A hippo charging from a quiet river can end a life in seconds, ...

In the face of a warming climate, the new research by Tulane scientists bodes poorly for the comparatively mild-mannered ...

(a)−(c) are Principal Component Analysis (PCA) of metabolites identified from different tissues (HP vs PG) and aggression (the hypothalamus of the most aggressive (HPM) vs the hypothalamus of the ...

An acute observer of animal behavior, Martin H. Moynihan uses a wide array of comparative studies to detail the diversity, mechanics, and evolutionary origins of the means by which animals keep their ...