You know that moment when you walk through the door, drop your bag, and there’s your dog, grinning like they thought they ...

Keen observation of animal behavior can reveal a lot about their inner emotions. The fourth episode of "Is Love Actually?" ...

When large and warty cane toads were first brought to Australia nearly 100 years ago, they had a simple mission: to gobble up beetles and other pests in the sugarcane fields. Today, though, the toads ...

Animal behavior research relies on careful observation of animals. Researchers might spend months in a jungle habitat watching tropical birds mate and raise their young. They might track the rates of ...

A comprehensive genomic study in commercial pigs maps hundreds of genetic markers governing feeding behavior, demonstrating ...

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During four days on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula, I saw an Olympic marmot, a species found nowhere else on Earth; four ...

Sean Ehlman will join USC’s Department of Biological Sciences in January 2026, bringing expertise in animal behavior and evolutionary ecology. His work investigates how animals develop individualized ...

We live in a noisy world. Whether it is the roar of traffic, the rumble of ships or the hum of heavy industry, there is often ...

As a career ethologist, I was thrilled when I learned about Dr. Matthew Calarco's new and highly original book titled The Three Ethologies: A Positive Vision for Rebuilding Human-Animal Relationships.

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This blog post addresses behavior across all animal species. It considers what we can learn about behavior when we do not limit our study to just humans. Studying nonhuman animal behaviors is ...