The animal kingdom is packed with surprising eating behaviors that challenge human understanding of what’s normal or acceptable. In nature, survival is everything—meaning even the most shocking animal ...

Binge eating, especially on high-fat, high-sugar foods, can rewire the brain and alter behavior, leading to compulsive food-seeking and a greater likelihood of overeating instead of under-eating when ...

Nature can be surprising, and sometimes a little unsettling, especially when animals behave in ways that seem hard for us to understand. One such example is self-cannibalism, highlighting a behaviour ...

New research digs into how coexisting animals find enough to eat when food is scarce. Ecologists have long sought clarity on the dietary habits of different animal species. For scientists at Brown ...

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In places where we need to protect valuable plants—whether for ecological or economic reasons—local herbivores can cause significant damage. Current solutions often involve killing the problem animals ...

This post was co-authored with Jared Piazza, Ph.D. How can people both recognize that there are issues with meat production yet fall short in taking the necessary steps to address the problem? A ...

Animals have evolved to eat a lot of different things, even stuff that barely passes for food, and it shapes our entire lives from what we look like to where we live. Today, we’ll talk about why being ...

A new study by researchers at the University of Washington shows that losing a particular group of endangered animals—those that eat fruit and help disperse the seeds of trees and other plants—could ...