social interaction

In the wake of Elon Musk’s takeover, many researchers are exploring their options with the open-source platform Mastodon.

Pet dogs produce a larger volume of tears when they are reunited with their owners than with acquaintances, possibly because of surging oxytocin levels—findings that could be the first evidence of emotional crying in nonhuman animals.

Interspecies adoptions are rare, but it’s not the first time this population of dolphins in French Polynesia has attempted it.

As artificial light increases in volume and geographical coverage around the world, a variety of animals are suffering ill effects.

The loss of darkness can harm individual organisms and perturb interspecies interactions, potentially causing lasting damage to life on our planet.

Social interaction influences the chimpanzee microbiome, increasing the number of microbial species the primates share.

See the social interaction between wild baboons that may be the key to shared microbiomes among groups studied by the Amboseli Baboon Research Project.