Animal Behaviors

What is animal behavior? Uncover the ways animals communicate, hunt, and survive in the wild. Learn how animal behavior influences the way species interact with their environment.

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Recent stories in Animal Behaviors: How to Save the World’s Largest Lemurs? Listen to Their Songs.; Do Gorillas Laugh? Grieve? Could They Fight a Hippopotamus? An Expert Answers Questions About the Impressive Primates; A Beginner’s Guide to Photographing Birds; It Took 20,000 Shots to Capture This Extraordinary Moment in Nature; How This Zombie Foot is Helping Scientists Fight Stingray Strikes; What Happens When Your New Cat Species Goes Mega-Viral?; 16 Striking Photos From This Year’s Best Wildlife Photographers; Thinking About Plague? Consider the Marmot.; For Most of History, Pigeons Were Beloved. What Happened?; What Makes Utah’s Desert Potholes So Mysterious—And Miraculous; The Race to Rescue Orangutans From Indonesia's Raging Fires; Inside the Collapse of Earth's Largest Penguin Colony; How a Nat Geo Photographer Captured Iconic Photos of Big Cats; Tracing a Mysterious Rabies Outbreak to a Surprising Source; Nat Geo's Guide to Birding in La La Land; Dian Fossey's Original Story on Life With the Gorillas; See a Great White Shark Snatch a Fish From a Line; Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Danish Wolf?; A Filmmaker on What it Takes to Spend Four Years With Lions; What Does It Take to Move 2,000 Rhinos?; Can This Bone-Eating Bird Be Saved?; The Huge Impact of Africa’s Teeny-Tiny Crocs; A Surprising New Way to Protect Mountain Gorillas; The Expert's Guide to Helping Injured Birds During the Fall Migration; The Rise (and Rise and Rise) of the Suddenly Ubiquitous Jellyfish