ethology

Gardner famously claimed to have taught chimpanzees to communicate with people using American Sign Language by raising them as if they were human children.

The journal Ethology is the first to adopt the guidelines, aimed at clarifying experimental design and the potential biases within.

Gene activity is linked to songbirds’ tunes.

Robots integrated into groups of zebrafish and of one-day-old honey bees allow the two species to influence each other’s behavior.

Ornithologists tagged 27 juvenile birds to track the way they use updrafts of air heated by the sun to migrate over long distances.

A junk mail filter can learn to pick out six behaviors of hydras by analyzing hours of video footage.