In a small study, dogs experienced both stabilization and destabilization of their balance upon hearing angry or happy human ...

In the new study, a team at the University of Veterinary Medicine in Vienna, Austria, measured changes in balance in 23 pet ...

Our voice affects dogs more than we realize—and anger seems to have the strongest effect on them, a new study has found.

Wildlife crime may sound like something that happens far away in dense jungles or on the high seas, but it is an increasingly ...

University of Queensland hearing tests conducted across kilometers of ocean off the Australian coast show humpback whales ...

Joy—fleeting woo-hoo moments like "catching the perfect wave"—is felt by many diverse animals, and researchers want to know how they express it in various situations and why.

Research suggests that dolphins develop a lifelong vocal “name.” Here’s how they evolved this high level of social identity, once thought to be uniquely human.

Nature’s most impressive conversations happen at frequencies we cannot hear. While humans perceive sounds between 20 and 20,000 hertz, many animals have evolved to communicate using infrasound. These ...

A cat’s purr carries a consistent vocal signature, while meows evolved to be flexible tools for interacting with humans. A new study led by scientists at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin and the Unive ...

Nancy Shute discusses how scientists are beginning to study animals’ emotions and personalities — from joy to individual ...

Scientists have long focused on quantifying fear and other negative emotions in animals. Now they’re trying to measure ...

Dogs are already known to detect human stress and fear through scent. Horses, like dogs, have lived alongside people for thousands of years, which may have tuned them to subtle human signals. Or the ...