Behavior as defined by Webster’s dictionary is: anything that an organism does involving action and response to stimulation. We can break this all the way down to the level of the exposome and ...

Coadaptation predicts a match between the thermal physiology and thermoregulatory behavior of reptiles. We tested this prediction by studying the digestive biology of rubber boas (Charina bottae). We ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. GrrlScientist writes about evolution, ecology, behavior and health. Everywhere we go, we are surrounded by birds. We eat them, ...

Integrating behavior and physiology is critical to formulating new hypotheses on the evolution of animal life-history strategies. Migratory capital breeders acquire most of the energy they need to ...

How do the cognitive and physiological traits of individuals translate into real-world group dynamics? There is an empirical and theoretical gap between understanding individual-level processes ...

These findings raise an alternative potential mechanism underlying behavioral pathogenesis in which variation in serotonergic gene transcription causes altered levels of serotonergic activity. As many ...

James Enright, an emeritus professor of behavioral physiology at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, died Sept. 23, 2004 at his home in La Jolla, Calif., from ...

Songbirds learning from nearby birds that food supplies might be growing short respond by changing their physiology as well as their behavior, research shows. Songbirds learning from nearby birds that ...

Weighing in between 300 and 1,400 pounds, with the ability to problem-solve, develop empathy and recognize themselves in a ...

As DNA testing becomes more sophisticated — and widely available — consumers have new access to all kinds of genetic information, from whether they're likely to sneeze when exposed to sunlight to ...