When people talk about saving wildlife, they often focus on numbers. Conversations center on how many deer live in a forest, ...

Humans have climbed to the top of the food chain by skillfully hunting, trapping, and fishing for other animals at scales that far exceed other predators, altering how the animals behave and earning ...

"Fine them, ban them." Onlooker captures video of tourist's dangerous behavior near wild animals: 'She's acting like she's at ...

"Know what grizzlies call people like this? Lunch." Onlooker captures video of tourists' dangerous behavior near wild grizzly bear: 'People have a death wish' first appeared on The Cool Down.

Study reveals that human interactions affect wildlife behavior differently, with lethal humans causing heightened vigilance ...

Scientists at EPFL have created MammAlps, a multi-view, multi-modal video dataset that captures how wild mammals behave in the Swiss Alps. This new resource could be a game-changer for wildlife ...

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 ...

Psychologists know that childhood trauma, or the experience of harmful or adverse events, can have lasting repercussions on the health and well-being of people well into adulthood. But while the ...

I've been studying various aspects of animal behavior, especially in mammals, for many decades and have always felt uneasy about how cultural values have limited our true understanding of the dynamics ...

Scientists have documented same-sex behavior in many animals. Learn what it means, how it varies, and why human labels can mislead.

When we think of pets, we picture wagging tails, soft purrs, and playful chirps, creatures that share our homes, our routines, and often our hearts. Wild animals, on the other hand, are usually ...