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 ...

Many people, including animal advocates and others who want to grant legal rights (including personhood) to nonhuman animals, are often criticized for their views because others fear it will diminish ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A male hourglass tree frog (Dendropsophus ebraccatus) with an inflated vocal sac used to produce calls. (Ryan Taylor) Your taste ...

Investment in animal welfare, environmental protection and restoration must continue to be part of public health agenda ...

If you've ever wondered how farming spread far and wide, our research on past human societies offers one explanation: contact between different groups often drives change. A new study led by an ...

Why do humans have language and other animals apparently don't? It's one of the most enduring questions in the study of mind and communication. Across all cultures, humans use richly expressive ...

Hunting is considered critical to human evolution by many researchers who believe that several characteristics that distinguish humans from our closest living relatives, the apes, may have partly ...

Artificial general intelligence (AGI) is slated to be a universal animal language translator, thus you can speak with your favorite pet, such as a lovable dog. In today’s column, I explore a touted ...

Your taste in music may feel unique, but there may be something more biologically innate driving your acoustic choices: A new study found that animals and humans tend to prefer many of the same mating ...