Animal behavior News

Jackson - A dog in Jackson, Tennessee is scheduled to be euthanized on Thursday after the owner surrendered the animal because it was "gay".

According to a US ornithologist, scrub jays take part in a bizarre ritual in which it appears that the hold a funeral for their dead.

Beersheba - The archer fish, which spits a stream of water at its prey, can see its target pop out of the background even though it has no visual cortex, the complex brain region thought to enable humans to perform the same perceptual feat, according to a new study.

Some animals have a strange ways of dealing with - or gaining from - violence. According to an Australian study, a male fiddler crab will happily defend a female neighbour against intruders, partly because he will get sex in return.