Animal Behavior
Animal Behavior
Animal Behavior
Animal Behavior
New Study Reports Emotional Support Dogs are 100% Cure-Alls
So say all participants who reported their quality of life had noticeably improved with an emotional support dog. Nonetheless, substantial data show pets aren't always panaceas.
Animal Behavior
Brainy Birds Are More Socially Playful Than the Less…
Research shows social play and not tool use is related to the size of birds' brains. Birds like to have fun and being called a "bird brain" is a compliment of the highest order.
Animal Behavior
Listening to the Voices of Animals Who Resist Exploitation
In her riveting book Sarat Colling shows how nonhumans resist the ways humans represent them in the contexts of capitalism, domestication, colonization, and human exceptionalism.
Animal Behavior
When A Pet Has Alzheimer’s Disease
Dementia (or "neurocognitive impairment") can cause considerable emotional distress for pets and their loving families. Here are some ways to understand what is happening.
Animal Behavior
8 Factors That Contribute to a Cat’s Personality
What determines a cat’s personality? A recent study reviewed research from the last 3 decades and identified 8 important factors.
Altruism
Banning Sociality is Costly
Our obligate sociality makes us particularly vulnerable to pandemic isolation, but it also offers the only solution to the pandemic--cooperating for the common good of others.
Animal Behavior
Should Wildlife Be Granted the Right to Own Their…
Legal scholar Karen Bradshaw argues nonhumans aren't transients and should be granted the right to own their homes rather than merely renting them from us on our terms and whims
Animal Behavior
Need Motivation to Exercise? Olfaction Is a Primal Motivator
New research suggests that specific smells may unlock the motivation to seek exercise.
Animal Behavior