Never underestimate the mind of a crow. Members of a family of birds that includes ravens, rooks, magpies, and jays, crows have been known to bend wire into hooks to retrieve food; drop nuts in a road ...

Animal behavior is the scientific study of the observable actions, interactions, and behavioral patterns of animals, typically investigated within ethology, behavioral ecology, and comparative ...

Recent advances in accelerometry have transformed the field of animal ecology by enabling the continuous monitoring of fine-scale movement and behaviour in free-ranging species. Accelerometers, often ...

The choice of rodent strain for neuroscientific research is often considered a secondary factor when selecting rat or mouse models for functional studies of ...

Animals able to change behaviors but slow to evolve might fare better than previously thought amid climate change.