Researchers from the Cluster of Excellence Collective Behavior have introduced the method YOLO-Behaviour: a new computer ...

but in conditions that cause the animals to display serious behavioural problems. But where a zoo is keeping animals in order to preserve a species that is under threat in the wild, and treats its ...

Motivation describes how animals make choices among possible behaviors, based on the strength of internal needs and sensory inputs. How do animals make decisions? Why does a dog, sleeping quietly ...

The most highly social animals form tightly knit colonies and include all ants and termites, some bees and wasps, and a few other organisms. Many social behaviors of animals are adaptive ...

A new study has revealed the clearest-ever picture of the surface chemistry of worm species that provides groundbreaking insights into how animals interact with their environment and each other. These ...

To keep their interest and encourage natural behaviors, animals in research facilities are often offered enrichment devices: objects to gnaw on, nesting materials that allow them to custom build their ...

While kindness is often seen as a uniquely human trait, it turns out that many animals also display behaviors that resemble empathy, compassion, and altruism. From ... Continue Reading → ...

He offers amusing anecdotes of his personal encounters with a wide variety of animals doing their social thing, to accompany his more science-based explanations for some of the remarkably complex ...

Researchers from the Cluster of Excellence Collective Behaviour introduce the method YOLO-Behaviour: a new computer vision framework to automatically identify animal behaviours from videos. The robust ...