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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A perspective in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface argues that advances in AI, sensing technologies and modeling are transforming the study of collective animal behavior, with implications ...