Driving headlong into danger isn’t everyone’s choice for a holiday, writes Victoria Richards, but when you’re with the first female African Bush Camp guide in the Okavango Delta, facing what you’re af ...

In an exploration of the influence of monogamy on eusocial societies, Dr Mark Dyble found that the white-handed gibbon had ...

From matriarchs who guide entire herds to queens that dominate their hives, the animal kingdom is full of powerful females ...

Scientists have discovered an ant species which uses a technique so devious to start a colony that it could change our understanding of animal social systems. Beginning a colony can be perilous for a ...

A Galápagos bird species is stunning behaviorists with their “freewheeling” lifestyles. Described in the journal PLOS One, ...

Female green anacondas, significantly larger than males, exhibit sexual cannibalism by consuming their mates after breeding. This behavior, potentially driven by nutritional needs during their long ...

Male bonobos have an impressive ability to detect when females are most fertile, even though the usual visual cues are ...

Male bonobos can decipher females' unreliable fertility signals, allowing them to focus their efforts on matings with the ...

Perched on a plastic chair overlooking a colony of Nazca boobies in the Galápagos Islands, researcher David Anderson ...

When Bald Eagles pair up, they take the plunge—literally—locking talons high in the air and tumbling toward the ground, ...

When turtles look for love, their courtship and mating rituals are unique. Discover the distinctive ways turtles create ...

The Phalaborwa Natural Heritage Foundation (PNHF) has shared an emotional account of two recent rescue missions involving adult male spotted hyenas from the same clan, exposing the ongoing threat ...