animal behavior

Physical contact helps determine who’s present among baboons’ gut bacteria.

See the social interaction between wild baboons that may be the key to shared microbiomes among groups studied by the Amboseli Baboon Research Project.

Dog owners bond with their four-legged friends via the same hormonal pathways through which human mothers bond with their babies.

Mice lacking a gene implicated in human anorexia and bulimia weigh less than their littermates and display a variety of behavioral disorders.

A round-up of recent discoveries in behavior research

Mice pairs with similar anxiety levels produce offspring more quickly than coupled animals with differing personalities, according to a recent study.

Junk DNA, Cuckoo, Sapiens, and Cool

A round-up of recent discoveries in behavior research

Researchers demonstrate false memories in bumblebees.

Dogs can distinguish between angry and happy human faces, a study finds.

Chimpanzees can learn “words” for objects, a study suggests.

Individual cockroaches can be shy or bold, but they alter their behavior to fit in with a group, a study shows.

Using GPS trackers, researchers demonstrate an energy-saving flight strategy for migratory birds.

The mollusk’s flashy tactics scare off predators.

Researchers aim to unravel the molecular mechanisms by which a single genotype gives rise to diverse castes in eusocial organisms.

A round-up of recent discoveries in behavior research

As the flying mammals navigate complex environments, they make use of specialized brain cells that cooperate to build a coordinate system that works in three dimensions.

Dogs tend to turn to the left when they hear emotional speech-like sounds, and right when they hear verbal commands from a robot.

A brain-computer interface uses the animals’ brain activity to steer them to a food reward.

A mouse study shows that eating at the wrong time of day can impact hippocampal function.