A perspective in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface argues that advances in AI, sensing technologies and modeling are ...

It is time for animal behavior to become its own academic discipline. The Animal Behavior Society argues that animal behavior ...

Elephants express a wide range of emotions through their body language. For example, an anxious elephant often holds its tail stiffly out to one side, while a calm and relaxed elephant will typically ...

We've compiled a list of weird animal behaviors we've amassed from the wild world web!

Elephant societies respond to death in ways that look uncannily similar to our own reactions. Here’s why it has researchers describing them as “compassionate.” Wildlife researchers have, for decades, ...

Elephants that live near farms are more daring than their deep-forest counterparts, and that behavior could be the key to helping people and elephants get along. That's the central finding of new ...

A Thai elephant checks out a cattle brush in an experiment showing that elephants living near farms are more interested in exploring unfamiliar objects — a curiosity that may put them in harm’s way.

Elephants are incredibly intelligent and social animals with several sophisticated methods of communication. They use all their senses — hearing, sight, touch, and smell — to interact within their own ...

Elephants are known for being wildly intelligent and incredibly social. They’re also one of the few animals — aside from humans — that grieve for their dead. They form tight social bonds with their ...

In southern India, communities are having frightening run-ins with wildlife. Across villages near Bannerghatta National Park, elephants are moving in ways they never have before — traveling far from ...