Scientists are discovering that animals use surprisingly sophisticated communication to form partnerships and cooperate ...

Why is human culture -- the shared body of knowledge passed down across generations -- so much more powerful than animal cultures? Why is human culture -- the shared body of knowledge passed down ...

Humans and great apes have been giggling in similar ways since branching off the evolutionary tree, a new study suggests.

Researchers have developed a way to program human cells to perform calculations and make autonomous decisions, similar to how ...

Millions of songbirds in Southeast Asia are trapped and smuggled each year for keeping as pets or entering in competitions.

Humans and great apes have been giggling in similar ways since branching off the evolutionary tree, a new study suggests. How ...

In fact, when they were tickled, laughter from both apes and humans was isochronous, meaning that the laughs followed a ...

A new study by an international research team led by Friedrich Schiller University Jena and the Max Planck Institute for ...

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New AI model, BehaVERT, reads mouse behavior like language, revealing patterns that could improve research into human ...

Jonathan Swift loved to wind up readers by insisting we are no better than any other animals. In his 1732 poem, The Beasts’ Confession, the Anglo-Irish satirist imagined a wolf, an ass, a pig, a ...

“The Creatures’ Guide to Caring” explores how communal child-rearing allowed animals from wasps to humans to evolve and thrive. The following is an excerpt from “The Creatures’ Guide to Caring: How ...