Researchers at the Laboratoire d'Écologie at the University Pierre and Marie Curie (Ecole Normale Supérieure/CNRS) and the Royal Holloway College (London, United Kingdom) have just ...

Understanding how rodents feel and communicate emotions can shed light on the evolutionary origin and mechanisms of human empathy. With that goal, researchers at the Italian Institute of Technology in ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Scientists have long witnessed altruism in the animal kingdom, but a new study finds not all acts ...

Learn why some animals never forget who has shared food with them or who has been stingy. Start typing “dog shares...” into a search engine and instant cuteness results. In one clip, a yellow Labrador ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Chimpanzees have now shown they can help strangers at personal cost without apparent expectation ...

True altruism is rare behavior in animals, but a new study by Penn State researchers has found that honey bees display this trait. Additionally, they found that an evolutionary battle of genetics may ...

If gut bacteria can sway their hosts to be selfless, it could answer a riddle that goes back to Darwin. Now researchers are beginning to explore whether parasitic manipulations may spur host behaviors ...