I've studied various aspects of play behavior in a wide variety of nonhuman animals (animals) for decades, focusing mostly on members of the "dog family" (canids), while some of my students have ...

Cute animals doing funny things have always ruled the internet — some of the first viral sensations, like Keyboard Cat and Sneezing Baby Panda, became instantly memeified. At a time when people might ...

There are plenty of things that animals can do that we can’t. I don’t know any humans who can fly, swim for thousands of miles at a time or survive in the Arctic without a coat. But despite the ...

"Zootopia 2," in theaters Wednesday, builds on the foundation of the 2016 film and escalates the action like "Lethal Weapon" ...

They can act inadvertently witty, comically clumsy, laughingly foolish or simply truly funny. But are they aware of it? Do wild animals have a sense of humor? Or are humans the only species to possess ...

If you had to tell a funny joke off the top of your head right now, could you do it? Humans love humor, but that doesn’t mean that it comes naturally to most of us. It can take a lot of effort to ...

Two Bridled Guillemots in the midst of a domestic dispute; The island of Hornøya in Norway is a hectic mix of chaos and noise, with squabbling seabirds vying for space and nesting sites. The highly ...