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Scientists have recorded same-sex behavior across many animal groups, including mammals, birds, and reptiles. Still, the meaning of that behavior depends on the species and the context. Behavior that ...

In years' past, researchers observed unusual animal behavior at zoos across the nation during a total solar eclipse. Flamingos circled their babies to protect them. Giraffes galloped around their ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - The crickets started chirping, the birds stopped flying and the giraffes thought it was bedtime. Some humans couldn't sense as the moon moved between the sun and the earth, but ...

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Humans have climbed to the top of the food chain by skillfully hunting, trapping, and fishing for other animals at scales that far exceed other predators, altering how the animals behave and earning ...

INDIANAPOLIS — While most Hoosiers kept their eye on the sky during Monday's total solar eclipse, staff at the Indianapolis Zoo were keeping watch over the behavior of their animals. As expected, the ...

Millions of people will look to the sky to see the total solar eclipse on Monday. People should prepare and have eclipse glasses to protect their eyes, but what about animals? Beth Posta, curator of ...

Zoo staff say the female hawk and female turkey vulture share food, preen each other and have even attempted to raise eggs.

A male fruit fly in a laboratory chamber extends his wings and vibrates them to produce his species' version of a love song.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — The pygmy hippo who attacked and killed a sitatunga at John Ball Zoo (JBZ) this spring acted as a result of “individual animal behavior.” The incident happened May 16 when ...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI — According to an internal review of a fatal incident at John Ball Zoo in Grand Rapids, zoo staff are not to blame for the death of a sitatunga antelope earlier this summer. Chopper ...