Many dog owners have probably noticed that endearing moment when a dog tilts or turns its head while looking at you. Far from ...

Trust me. This is going to be a rave review for a new book about animal-human communication by naturalist, filmmaker, and writer Tom Mustill. But first .... I read a lot of pop-sci books about animal ...

Over the last decades, researchers who study animal behavior have succeeded in largely blurring the line between Homo sapiens and other animals. Like their human counterparts, animals feel emotions, ...

As scientists use machine learning to decode the sounds of whales, dogs, and dolphins, opinions vary on how best to deploy the technology. Reading time 7 minutes Chirps, trills, growls, howls, squawks ...

There are many forms of animal communication. In the lyrics of Let’s Do It, Cole Porter celebrated the diversity of signals that birds, bees, oysters, clams, sponges, and electric eels produce to ...

Dogs and cats don’t just communicate with their tails; they have other ways that allow humans to understand the emotions they ...

Underneath the thick forest canopy on a remote island in the South Pacific, a New Caledonian crow peers from its perch, dark eyes glittering. The bird carefully removes a branch, strips off unwanted ...

Female putty-nosed monkeys deliberately use alarm calls to recruit males to defend the group. This is the conclusion reached by evolutionary biologists after conducting observations in the Republic of ...

Psychology Today defines animal-assisted therapy as: A therapeutic intervention that incorporates animals, such as horses, dogs, cats, and birds, into the treatment plan. The client, therapist, and ...