Scientists are finding elephant youths respond differently to danger if they grew up without elders.

Biologgers enable real-time collection of detailed behavioural and physiological data from wide-ranging animals, including seabirds inhabiting remote regions. However, the number of studies using tra...

Cultural knowledge is widely presumed to be important for elephants. In all three elephant species, individuals tend to congregate around older conspecifics, creating opportunities for social transmission. However, direct evidence of social learning and ...

This scoping review summarises the current evidence for ecological effects of seven global deer species on woody vegetation, with a focus on the evenness of study across deer species, global distribu...

From bees to whales, it’s increasingly acknowledged that creatures have cultures within which they live their daily lives. This is particularly true for elephants, and the loss of matriarchs is leadin...

Recent scientific discoveries have revealed that culture is surprisingly widespread across the animal kingdom. Now, major conservation agencies have begun to recognize that these discoveries could hav...

Cultural knowledge is widely presumed to be important for elephants. In all three elephant species, individuals tend to congregate around older conspecifics, creating opportunities for social transmission. However, direct evidence of social learning and ...

Cultural knowledge is widely presumed to be important for elephants. In all three elephant species, individuals tend to congregate around older conspecifics, creating opportunities for social transmission. However, direct evidence of social learning and ...

As evidence accrues of complex socially transmitted behaviors in animals, biologists are figuring out how to use these data in conservation

In a first, researchers have seen a nonhuman animal combine different calls to make new meanings

Research reveals that fallow deer have an unexpected appetite for brambles, a plant often seen as a woodland nuisance.

Many species can't be easily categorized as nocturnal or diurnal, a new study suggests.

A team from Bangor University conducted the study amid a growing concern that increasing deer populations are negatively impacting the health and regeneration of UK woodlands. However, according to t...

A team from Bangor University conducted the study amid a growing concern that increasing deer populations are negatively impacting the health and regeneration of UK woodlands. However, according to t...