The extraordinary scene in this Instagram post is not what you’d expect to see in the average pigeon coop. Two males are ...

There's something magnetic about a group of people looking in the same direction—others will follow their gazes to see what has caught their attention. But is the same true for animals like pigeons?

Social animals have to make decisions that affect not just themselves, but everyone in the group. For example, when embarking on a journey together, individuals must agree on the route--a difficult ...

B.F. Skinner is a psychologist best known for the Skinner Box, a kind of sensory-deprivation device which limits the creature inside it to only one form of stimulus at a time. Using one such box, he ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Our bonds with our pets know no bounds. Since the first domesticated dogs around 20,000+ years ago, we humans have had to find ...

Social animals have to make decisions that affect not just themselves, but everyone in the group. For example, when embarking on a journey together, individuals must agree on the route--a difficult ...

Our bonds with our pets know no bounds. Since the first domesticated dogs around 20,000+ years ago, we humans have had to find common ground with our animals. Today, that translates into belly rubs, ...