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 ...

What are the causes of such diverse behaviors among living organisms? How do we study behavior? Research in animal behavior informs ecology and evolution and offers solutions for problems in ...

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, ...

People have pondered animal behavior since the beginnings of human existence (Frison 1998). Insights into animal behavior allowed our ancestors to outsmart prey during a hunt or befriend another ...

When mothers and their children play together, they instinctively respond to each other's cues. And positive interactions promote the child's healthy socioemotional development. A new study examines ...

Nobel Prize–winning physiologist Ivan Pavlovs quote of the day stresses that science should go beyond simply recording ...

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 ...

The Animal Behavior Graduate Group is targeted toward students who are interested in understanding the adaptive and evolutionary bases of animal behavior. Students are trained for teaching and ...