Constant Din Of Barking Causes Stress, Behavior Changes In Dogs In Shelters
If your neighbor's barking dog drives you crazy, pity the employees of the nation's animal shelters, where the noise produced by howling, barking and yapping dogs often exceeds that produced by a jackhammer.

Dogs On The Scent Of Better Behaviour
Dogs in animal shelters can be helped to behave better by wafting special scents throughout their kennels and corridors, animal behaviour experts from the University of Edinburgh have found.

Rats May Be Pessimistic Too
Rats housed in unpredictable conditions appear to have a more negative outlook than those housed in stable, settled conditions

Baboons seek “comfort” after deaths in the family
When a lion killed Sierra the baboon, her mother reacted in a way that one could call human-like: she looked to friends for support, say researchers who studied the animals.

Alloparenting-What Is It?
An introduction to what alloparenting is. No examples, just explanation of benefits to alloparenting to all involved in the activity--parents, young, and alloparents.

When In Danger Humans Are Similar To A Deer In The Headlights
Standing still when a threat is detected is a defensive, protective reaction.

The lunar cycle: effects on human and animal behavior and physiology
A review of available data regarding effects of the lunar cycle on human and animal physiology, with particular attention paid to alterations
in the immune response of experimental animals.

Gendered Division Of Labor Gave Modern Humans Advantage Over Neanderthals
Diversified social roles for men, women, and children may have given Homo sapiens an advantage over Neanderthals...

Home, Home On The Range: How Much Space Does An Animal Really Need?
Instead of wandering around aimlessly, most animals tend to stay in a certain area --known as their home range.

Social Imitation In Neonatal Monkeys
Mimicry exists in humans and in apes. Recently they found that rhesus monkeys are also capable of mimicry...

Pinna Movements of the Cat during Sound Localization
A study on the pinna movements in cats while performing various sound localization tasks...

The Initiation and Control of Rapid Flight Maneuvers in Fruit Flies
This review discussed single stereotyped flight maneuver of the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, at several levels of analysis— from the sensory signals that trigger the behavior to the aerodynamic forces generated by the wings.

Magnetic Orientation and Navigation in Marine Turtles, Lobsters, and Molluscs: Concepts and Conundrums
Behavioral experiments with sea turtles, spiny lobsters, and sea slugs have revealed that all have a magnetic compass sense...

Mechanisms of Magnetic Orientation in Birds
The article discussed avian navigation using geomagnetic field for direction finding (compass) and position finding (map).

Multi-modal Orientation Cues in Homing Pigeons
How homing pigeons displaced into unfamiliar territory find their way home has been the subject of extensive experimentation and debate...

Physiological Causes and Consequences of Social Status in Salmonid Fish
Social interactions in small groups of juvenile rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) lead to the formation of dominance hierarchies.

How Many Footsteps Do Dogs Need to Determine the Direction of an Odour Trail?
This study examined how much olfactory information from this trail is required by dogs to determine direction.

Even Fish Don't Swim Well When They're Young
Fish larvae are pretty feeble when it comes to an efficient mode of swimming called 'burst-and-coast'...

Monkeys Show Sophisticated Learning Abilities
Psychologists have found evidence that monkeys have sophisticated abilities to acquire and apply knowledge using some of the same strategies as do humans

Physical Intelligence In Rooks
Rooks have the capacity to apply more sophisticated cognition to solving physical tasks based on recent findings.