Empathy in animals encompasses a range of processes whereby individuals perceive, share, and respond to the emotional states of conspecifics, often leading to demonstrably prosocial behaviours.

A friend of mine recently sent me a beautiful and moving photo essay published by Isa Leshko capturing the "beauty and dignity of elderly animals" "in their winter years". As I looked at each of the ...

Biomedical engineers at Duke University have developed a 3D imaging method to precisely map and categorize the social behavior of animals. By quantitatively measuring the movements, interactions, and ...

A long-term study in Fiji shows they form preferred social relationships, avoid certain individuals, and change how social ...

Cities profoundly shape how animals interact with one another. A new comprehensive review by researchers at Bielefeld University shows that urbanisation alters animal social behaviour – from mate ...

An Instagram post went viral for showing a pufferfish getting "high" off of pufferfish toxins. Read here to learn more.

What do the like button and the frowny-face emojis do to our thought processes? Just to float a hypothesis, I would imagine that these digital punishments and rewards have a homogenizing social effect ...

Crying is one of the most recognizable human emotional signals. Tears appear when people experience grief, relief, joy, or ...

Scientists have recorded same-sex behavior across many animal groups, including mammals, birds, and reptiles. Still, the meaning of that behavior depends on the species and the context. Behavior that ...