I show animals displaying surprising problem-solving skills and even acts of revenge.

A tiger walks the same worn groove along the edge of its exhibit, like a broken record. A parrot methodically plucks out its own feathers until bare skin shows through. To a casual visitor, these can ...

Animal groups show how simple actions create shared intelligence, shaping technology, health research, and crowd safety.

From problem-solving to emotional intelligence, these five animals exhibit brainpower that rivals humans.

Increasing urbanization has crowded out many wild animals. But raccoons appear to be thriving, living in cities across the country and even expanding their historical range. To investigate what ...

Using” Wolf Seeing a gray wolf haul a crab trap out of the ocean looks like a scene from a science documentary that forgot its own rules. In a short video from Canada’s Pacific coast, a female coastal ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American A new study published in Proceedings of the ...

A perspective in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface argues that advances in AI, sensing technologies and modeling are ...

Nature doesn’t just surprise us; it prototypes ideas we’d swear came from a movie. Some animal skills look like planned gadgets: built-in sonar, living bridges, and even tool belts. Others are old ...