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

Same-sex behavior is common across the animal kingdom—more than 1,500 species are estimated to have been observed engaging in ...

Assessing student learning effectively is often complicated by relying on ambiguous proxies such as grades, quiz scores, or assumptions about students' internal states, such as what they feel, think, ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — A behavior that researchers had not observed before was not only documented in Hawaii waters but captured on film. And researchers were in for a surprise. Sex. It happens. And ...

Every year, researchers and people out in nature capture some aspect of animal behavior that’s unusual or unexpected in some ...

A chimpanzee doesn’t hesitate to make it clear when it wants attention. The closest cousin of humans, this species of great ape has effective ways of communicating what it needs. Researchers have ...

Chimpanzees have been observed applying insects to open wounds in a new "surprising behavior," scientists have said. A research team from Osnabrück University, Germany, has observed this behavior in a ...