Elephants do not just listen and sniff, they also pay attention to how we stand and where we look. A new study reports that Asian elephants watch for combined body and face cues to judge whether a ...

A natural psychedelic may do more than alter perception. A new study found that at sub-hallucinogenic doses, DMT shielded the brain from stroke damage in animal models, reducing inflammation, ...

Animal law is a most important field for protecting animals of all kinds from all sorts of mistreatment, and it can have widespread legal impacts for many areas of mainstream practices for humans as ...

Marco Adda offers a new view of how to interact with nonhumans and explores how we can learn from other animals’ movement, perception, and presence to help everyone involved.

With their massive flapping ears and long trunks, it isn't hard to believe that elephants tend to rely on acoustic and olfactory cues for communication. They use gestures and visual displays to ...

From strong currents to Nile crocodiles, see why the Mara River crossing is the deadliest part of the wildebeest trek.

Elephants, for instance, primarily draw upon sound and smell cues to converse with peers— elephants’ brain areas associated with these senses are much bigger than their visual cortex. Still, elephants ...

They are using the pattern recognition capabilities of AI to sort a cacophony of caws and rumbles and chatter into individual units that may carry meaning, and then trying to match those units with ...

“The results showed that the menstrual cycles of women whose records were made before the introduction of light-emitting diodes in 2010 and the widespread use of smartphones were significantly ...

To protect pets from lead poisoning, keep them away from peeling or chipping paint and at a safe distance from active renovations, especially in homes built before 1978, the year the use of lead-based ...

Without formal scientific training, Goodall upended the study of animal behavior. She also inspired countless people to protect nature.

Dr Jane Goodall, who died today at 91, devoted her life to the study and conservation of chimpanzees and the other great apes. Through her pioneering new ways to study them, Goodall discovered that ...