Who in their right mind would condone and encourage cheating among UCLA juniors and seniors? Perhaps someone with the idea that concepts in animal behavior can be taught by making their students live those concepts. >>Read More

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More and more evidence, from a wide variety of species—cats, dogs, hyenas, and many other critters—suggests that animals within a given population show consistent differences in how they behave, and that these differences often map nicely onto the sorts of patterns we see in humans. >>Read More

Now, thanks to new observation technologies, powerful software, and statistical methods, the mechanics of collectives are being revealed. Indeed, enough physicists, biologists, and engineers have gotten involved that the science itself seems to be hitting a density-dependent shift. >>Read More

“Expect fun facts about the species' ecology, evolution, natural history, and whenever available THEIR MILK!” >>Read More

Researchers from the University of Michigan have found evidence of reverse evolution in house dust mites. This discovery contradicts the belief that once an organism has evolved certain traits, it will never again act like its ancestors. >>Read More

The short version is that we often think of evolution as being the survival of the fittest, where the strong and the dominant survive and the soft and weak perish. But essentially, far from the survival of the leanest and meanest, the success of dogs comes down to survival of the friendliest. >>Read More