A major new study has examined the prevalence of same-sex behavior in primates. It appeared Monday in Nature Ecology and ...

Past theories have suggested that animals exhibit SSB to increase group cohesion, to signal dominance among a larger group, ...

A new study posits that same-sex sexual behavior developed to help primates in complex social groups ease tension, reduce ...

A new primate study links same-sex behaviour to survival, social bonding, and environmental stress, raising intriguing ...

Biologists tend to look at the animal kingdom and try to categorize things in an organized fashion. But nature has a way of ...

A common belief is that compulsive behaviors trap people in a “habit loop” that takes over self-control. New research, however, suggests this explanation may be incomplete. For many years, compulsive ...

The riskiest behavior in humans peaks in adolescence. Researchers from the University of Michigan and James Madison ...

New research suggests that the commonly used ‘lab mouse’ may display behaviors entirely distinct from their wild-derived counterparts, prompting new considerations for the future of animal-based ...