From tens of thousands of hours of observation, scientists have compiled a detailed library of African elephant behavior. Joyce Poole, a foremost expert in elephant behavior, and her husband, Petter ...

For years it’s been thought that horses who swish their tail, put their ears back and open their mouth when being ridden are behaving negatively. However, recent research by vet Sue Dyson, a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Andréa Morris reports on emergent intelligence in diverse systems. So you’ve emerged from the pandemic fluent in a second language ...

Scientists from the University of Portsmouth's Center for Comparative and Evolutionary Psychology have created the first anatomically-based descriptions (ethogram) of equine facial behavior, mapping ...

Even without training, it is possible for onlookers to assess pain and lameness in ridden horses using an ethogram, research has shown. Dr Sue Dyson, head of clinical orthopaedics at the Centre for ...

National Geographic Explorer Joyce Poole reflects on her life’s achievement: an ethogram cataloguing nearly 50 years of data on African elephant behavior. Joyce Poole records elephant vocalizations in ...

Reviewed Work: Behavior of the Golden Eagle: An Illustrated Ethogram by David H. Ellis, N. John Schmitt ...

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with researcher Joyce Poole about the release of her African Elephant Ethogram —the most comprehensive audiovisual library ever made of African elephant behavior. Here ...

A HERD of around 40 elephants processes across open grassland in Mozambique’s Gorongosa National Park. Led by a matriarch named Valente, they are headed towards a newly felled tree, a potential food ...

When a male African savanna elephant folds his ears while simultaneously waving them, he’s ready for a fight. When a female folds her ears and accompanies the action with an ear flap, that means she’s ...