Given my keen interest in the social behavior of nonhuman animals (animals), especially the importance of cooperation and empathy in how they build societies rather than competitive and divisive ...

In a type of relationship known as mutualism, two different species benefit from one another through cooperation. While some ...

Biologist Ashley Ward has spent his career fascinated by how animals socialize. Now, in a new book, he’s sharing what he learned about mingling in the animal kingdom with the rest of the world. This ...

Last Friday, as I was competing a draft of this essay, I was asked to comment on the notion of trust among nonhuman animals (animals). This request couldn't have come at a better time because I was ...

An international research team led by the University of Konstanz and Oxford Brookes University concludes that gentle touch is ...

Animals living in volatile habitats can gain major evolutionary benefits by shielding their families from the changing environment, new research suggests. Biologists investigated an overlooked reason ...

Part I: Biological perspectives. The evolution of cooperation and altruism -- Competition and conflict in animals -- Animal communication -- Part II: Human social behaviour. Theory of voting -- ...

Honey gatherers working with birds to find wild bees’ nests; fishers working with dolphins to trap fish — these are examples of what’s known as mutualism, a practice that’s fast dying out, a new study ...

Animals living in volatile habitats can gain major evolutionary benefits by shielding their families from the changing environment, new research suggests. Biologists from the University of Bristol, ...