Meerkat pups start to play as soon as they can totter about the burrow. On stubby legs they crawl over one another, gnawing on any protruding ear, limb or nose. Within a week, the little guys are play ...

Some animals actively use trickery to catch prey or escape being caught by predators and this can be very sophisticated.

Nonhuman animal (animal) play is a topic that has received a good detailed attention in recent years (see and and, for example) because coming to an understanding of this behavior is central to ...

Source: Petr Hamerník, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. How do you ask an animal if it is in pain? It can be challenging, since many species have evolved to hide potential vulnerability. At the ...