In a new study, bumble bees solve a completely novel object-manipulation task. What makes this behavior especially remarkable ...

It's easy for students in Elizabeth Hobson's lab at the University of Cincinnati to get attached to their study subjects. The assistant professor in UC's College of Arts and Sciences is a behavioral ...

How do animal behavior researchers feel about the feelings of animals? A new survey helps to answer that question. The journal Royal Society Open Science published a survey of 100 researchers of ...

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 ...

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New research suggests beluga whales can recognize themselves in mirrors, a cognitive ability previously demonstrated in only ...

For more than a decade, neuroscientists had recordings from monkey brains learning to sort visual patterns. They had analyzed the data, published landmark papers, and moved on. Then a computer model ...

This post is in response to The Eclectic Father of Cognitive Ethology By Marc Bekoff Ph.D. Source: Jeffrey Eisen/Pexels. A growing number of people, including academics and non-academic folks, are ...