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A total solar eclipse will be visible in North America today. Animals may start acting weirdly as the moon blocks out the sun. Scientists aren't completely sure how eclipses affect animal behavior.

A global system dubbed the “internet of animals,” which tracks wildlife via satellite, is one step closer to becoming a ...

Homosexual behavior is much more common across the animal kingdom than we first thought, new research has found. Scientists found that 78 percent of animal behavior experts had seen some degree of ...

Human-driven climate change is increasingly shaping the Earth’s living environments. Rising temperatures, rapid shifts in rainfall and seasonality, and ocean acidification are presenting altered ...

Recently, I came across a helpful article by William Baum (2018) 1 on the “three laws of behavior.” Baum is a behavior analyst who works in the tradition of B. F. Skinner, and the article focuses on ...

Why can't we stop anthropomorphizing our animal friends and foes? Illustration by Emily Lankiewicz / Orca image from Christopher Michel via Wikimedia Commons under CC-BY 2.0 / Bird and dolphin via ...

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 ...

Less than a week from now, when the sun partially disappears behind Long Island's moon — and entirely in places like upstate New York — many of the Earth's creatures will react to the eclipse. Not all ...

On Aug. 21, 2017, a solar eclipse shrouded The Riverbanks Zoo and Garden in Columbia, South Carolina, in near-total darkness for 2½ minutes. In the time leading up to the darkness, during it, and ...