Ambika Kamath and Melina Packer are working to overturn biased, outdated views in biology When Ambika Kamath was a graduate student in evolutionary biology at Harvard University, she knew one thing ...

A new study found that subtle differences in an animal’s behavior by midlife can predict how long it is likely to live.

Each summer, a small group of undergraduate students—usually about 10—comes to Indiana University each summer to engage in animal behavior research that involves neuroscience, cognitive science, and ...

I've been studying various aspects of animal behavior, especially in mammals, for many decades and have always felt uneasy about how cultural values have limited our true understanding of the dynamics ...

For Meingold Chan, assistant professor in the Purdue University Department of Human Development and Family Science, studying epigenetics can be analogized to playing a piece of sheet music. When ...

Researchers say environmental changes are prompting shifts in animal behavior, with birds often showing the earliest signs. Studies highlight that altered activity patterns, habitat use, and feeding ...