Habitat use and foraging behavior of the Chestnut-sided Warbler (Dendroica pensylvanica), Canada Warbler (Wilsonia canadensis), Mourning Warbler (Oporornis philadelphia) and Nashville Warbler ...

Time spent foraging (and in other activities), rate of pecking at food items and length of foraging and nonforaging periods were studied in cackling Canada goose (Branta canadensis minima) goslings ...

A new study based on close observations of the foraging behavior of Asian elephants in a Malaysian forest highlights the “profound” impact of the giant herbivores on plant and tree diversity. The ...

Finding food and staying at a food source are crucial survival strategies in the animal world. But how are external feeding signals on the molecular, cellular and neuronal circuit level transformed ...

Valentin Dragoi professor of electrical and computer engineering at Rice University, professor of neuroscience at Weill Cornell Medical College and scientific director of the Methodist/Rice Center for ...

Dolphins can learn new skills from their fellow dolphins. New findings show that dolphins are not only capable of learning new ways to catch prey, but they are also motivated to learn from peers, not ...

Climate change is impacting the winter foraging behavior of wild snow monkeys in Japan, a new study revealed on Wednesday. The research involving the University of Tsukuba, and Shinshu University ...

Like physical traits, behavioral traits have a heritable component, and personalities may resemble one parent’s more than the other. New research in mice finds that specific complex behaviors in these ...

In order to study why organisms pay attention to what other members of their species are doing, scientists set out to understand how animals are incorporating social information into their behavior. A ...

Biologists have long wondered how animals find food. In times of plenty, when food is easy to find, wandering around at random should do the trick. And indeed, there is plenty of evidence that ...