These dog training techniques help correct bad behavior quickly without yelling, using positive reinforcement, consistency, ...

Animal specialists reveal why quirky, messy, or irritating cat behaviors are actually signs of affection, trust, and deep ...

Never underestimate the mind of a crow. Members of a family of birds that includes ravens, rooks, magpies, and jays, crows have been known to bend wire into hooks to retrieve food; drop nuts in a road ...

In the natural world -- where predators pounce, prey flee, and group members feed and sleep in solidarity -- animal behavior is glorious in its variety. Now, new research suggests there may be an ...

As adorable, loyal, and loving as dogs are, they are still animals with natural instincts. Just because they live inside our homes and are spoiled rotten, does not mean they won't act like the animals ...

Many people seem to think calling a dog good, bad, happy, sad, aggressive, stubborn, bold, shy, vicious, alpha, pessimistic, optimistic, or abnormal can help us understand what they’re thinking and ...

We all know this classic excuse: The dog ate my homework. But, as L.A. times columnist Patt Morrison points out, there’s a long list of bad behavior that’s been blamed on animals, and some of it is ...

There is ever-growing interest in the ways in which a wide variety of nonhuman animals (animals) deal with the ups and downs of their lived experiences in many different contexts. In his new edited ...