Noses are usually something we take for granted. Breathing, smelling, maybe a sniff of a flower, that’s about it for most ...

Agreement between animals and humans was strongest when the calls involved lower pitched sounds or acoustic adornments, such as trills, clicks and chucks. Charles Darwin had a hunch that birds had ...

We grow up hearing that we should not judge a book by its cover or people by their appearances, and the same rule applies to ...

A recurring phrase in Brady Bunch star Eve Plumb's memoir is one that, at first glance, sounds almost deceptively simple: "I ...

Biruté Galdikas was the third of the so-called Trimates, alongside Dian Fossey and Jane Goodall. She spent thousands of hours ...

On a journey through Indonesia, writer Kathryn Romeyn ensures her father's new-found mobility issues won't interfere with his ...

It is not unusual for laboratory monkeys to engage in abnormal repetitive behaviors (ARBs), such as pacing and hair-plucking.

In a video captured on March 11, Punch, the baby macaque, is spotted cuddling up with another macaque in the Ishikawa City ...

Whether it’s a canary’s chirp or a treefrog’s croak, humans tend to prefer many of the same sounds that animals do themselves ...

New research by Smithsonian scientists suggests that preferences for certain sounds might be evolutionarily conserved ...

When ice and snow begin to melt in California's high-elevation waters, male frogs hop into action. Emerging from hibernation, they head to lakes and ponds scattered throughout the area and begin ...