Massive animal groups, from wildebeest herds to fish schools and bird flocks, exhibit remarkable coordinated movement without a leader. These complex behaviors emerge from simple individual ...

March 1, 2026 is National Pig Day, celebrating an animal that more often than not brings to mind filth, cartoons, and maybe a few bacon jokes. But the reality of our relationship to pigs is far more ...

Raccoons keep solving puzzles even after finding food. Curiosity drives learning and may explain why raccoons adapt so well ...

Intelligent, tool-using, empathetic and self-aware: the distance between humans and other animals is not as great as you ...

A new special issue in Acta Ethologica explores the diverse ways animals think, learn, and interact, revealing 'intellectual ...

If every creature gained human-level reasoning overnight, nature would turn into a battlefield of instincts mixed with logic. Some species might even form armies that could be used to manipulate or ...

We named him Squirt—not because he was the smallest of the 16 cuttlefish in the pool, but because anyone with the audacity to scoop him into a separate tank to study him was likely to get soaked.

They raid compost bins, outsmart latches and sometimes look gleeful doing it. A new UBC study in Animal Behaviour suggests raccoons may not just be ...