Researchers engaged in animal behaviour studies often rely on hours upon hours of video footage which they manually analyse. Usually, this requires researchers to work their way through recordings ...

Animal behaviour encompasses a vast spectrum of actions and reactions by organisms as they interact with their environment and each other. Drawing on insights from classical ethology, behavioural ...

According to a study pertaining to more than a hundred animal species, environmental change brought about by humans has the greatest impact on the animals’ activity in exploring their environment.

Solar eclipses are among nature’s most unusual and dramatic events. The Moon casts a shadow on the Earth that changes the ...

Recent 2025 studies reveal the biological functions behind seemingly strange animal behaviors. From chimpanzees using plants as medicine and orcas coordinating hunts with dolphins, to eagles gathering ...

Graeme Shannon received funding from the US National Park Service. Noise pollution, generally an unintended byproduct of urbanisation, transport and industry, is a key characteristic of human ...

After the Senate of the Max Planck Society approved the independence of the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Radolfzell and Konstanz in November 2018, the Joint Science Conference has now ...

For millennia, people across the globe have reported alarmed animal behaviour in the run-up to natural disasters. Could these signals be used to warn us of impending catastrophes? In 2004, a tsunami ...

Over the past 50 years, hundreds of thousands of images have been submitted into the prestigious Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition. Now some of the most memorable have been specially ...

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From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...