WASHINGTON – People collect lots of things -- salt shakers, antiques, other inanimate objects -- but when they start to collect animals by the hundreds, so many they're unable to care for them, it ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) Imagine being a therapist and sitting across from a client who casually admits to kicking their dog. They kick until the dog stops barking. As a therapist, you are bound by ...

In a new finding, scientists have shown that when plants encounter stress they use signals normally found in animals. This is all the more startling because plants do not have nervous systems or ...

Although plants do not feel hunger or pain like animals, they are able to use signals that are linked with animals when they are under stress. For the new study published in the journal Nature ...

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 ...

A new paper examines the possible effects of two properties of receiver playing fields documented in studies of animal psychology -- habituation and neural adaptation -- on the efficacy of mate choice ...