Horses detect human fear through smell alone and exhibit fearful behavior through emotional contagion mechanism.

A perspective in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface argues that advances in AI, sensing technologies and modeling are transforming the study of collective animal behavior, with implications ...

A new study shows a bonobo can track pretend juice and grapes, suggesting apes also have imagination, not only humans.

Researchers from INRAE and IFCE have demonstrated that fear-related human chemical cues influence horse behaviour through ...

For the first time, clumps of human cells called organoids were fully integrated with the brains of rats—and influenced their ...

What happens to pets when families are separated? When caregivers are detained, animals are left behind, often with ...

I started this blog a little over a year ago as a way of exploring the intersection of animal behavior research and human psychology. Research on animal behavior provides a lot of insights for ...

Carnivores, typically more active at night, became more active during the day when tourists were present. Herbivores, in response, shifted their waterhole visits to nighttime, potentially increasing ...

They sometimes touched their lips together, breathed into one another’s open mouths, or stood on two legs and hugged.

Incidents that make us consider the relationship between humans and wild animals are happening all over Japan, from bear ...