The study flags new challenges for conservation as population growth brings humans and animals closer together. View on ...

Birds adjust their songs and territorial behavior to compete with traffic sounds, even in remote island environments.

What drives a serial killer? Hardwired instincts, symbolic triggers, and ritualized predation—unraveling ancestral imprints.

Cats are often picked up incorrectly, and it can be unpleasant to be lifted up with their legs dangling in the air. Given the ...

Austrian biologist Konrad Lorenz came up with his "kinderschema" or child scheme, which is a list of physical characteristics that define what we consider cute. He observed that cute animals share ...

Konrad Lorenz, a pioneer in ethology, observed that militant enthusiasm—the instinct to defend one’s group against outsiders—exists across species, from greylag geese to humans. He wrote ...

Konrad Lorenz, a 20th-century Austrian ethologist, identified this set of characteristics and called it Kindchenschema, or in English, baby schema. These characteristics are sometimes called “baby ...

Published in the journal Animal Behaviour and led by experts from Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) and the Konrad Lorenz Research Centre at the University of Vienna, the research examined the impact ...

A new study has discovered that birds in the Galápagos Islands are changing their behaviour due to traffic noise, with those frequently exposed to ...