Studying the social behavior of animals in their natural environments is necessary for advancing our understanding of ...

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How do city residents feel about animals in their immediate surroundings? A recent study shows how different the acceptance of various wild animals in urban areas is. Important factors are the places ...

Conventional markerless tracking methods struggle with body part misestimations or missing estimates in crowded spaces. In vmTracking, markerless multi-animal tracking is performed on a video ...

You check into a hotel and toss and turn all night, but your sleep improves the following night. Scientists at Nagoya University wanted to understand why this happens. Working with mice, they have ...

Chris Hoffman is president of Pennsylvania Farm Bureau. He is a first-generation hog and chicken farmer. This is the fourth in a series of “Question & Answer”-style columns with state Farm Bureau ...

Every animal with a brain needs sleep — and even a few without a brain do, too. Humans sleep, birds sleep, whales sleep and even jellyfish sleep. Sleep is universal “even though it’s actually very ...

If you live in an urban environment, it might seem like the animals you see every day—birds, bugs, squirrels—have adapted perfectly fine to city life. The team combed through years of iNaturalist data ...