It requires animals to interpret cues and signals outside of their own species’ behavioral frameworks. Still, in numerous scenarios, cooperation between species could prove useful—for example, in ...

Nature is often portrayed as a battlefield where every species competes for food, territory, and survival. Yet some of the most successful relationships in the natural world are built on cooperation.

Unlike humans, marine animals are not born with the innate ability to speak and learn complex languages. But that doesn't mean that they don't communicate with each other at all. Instead of vocal ...

We have changed from wanting animals to understand human language to wanting to understand how they communicate with each ...

A team of scientists from Switzerland and France propose that animals learned to communicate at this rhythm hundreds of millions of years ago, before the emergence of mammals, because it's the speed ...

From whale songs to lion roars, animals have evolved to stretch their voices across distances so that friends—and sometimes foes—can hear them. Each sound is coded with messages like "Come here!" ...

Source: Jesús Esteban San José/Pexels. As more people far too easily become alienated from the natural world in which they live, it's essential that they get out and develop a deeper appreciation for ...

McGill University postdoctoral fellow Logan James, an affiliated researcher with the nonprofit Earth Species Project, examines zebra finch recordings on Dec. 12, 2024, in Montreal, Canada. The ...

Cities profoundly shape how animals interact with one another. A new comprehensive review by researchers at Bielefeld University shows that urbanisation alters animal social behaviour – from mate ...