In CUriosity, experts across the CU Boulder campus answer pressing questions about humans, our planet and the universe beyond. This week, Marc Bekoff, professor emeritus in the Department of Ecology ...

Have you ever been to a zoo and thought that the animals looked sad? Or perhaps you’ve visited a wildlife park and felt that the animals were chilled and content? Humans are pretty good at judging how ...

How do animal behavior researchers feel about the feelings of animals? A new survey helps to answer that question. The journal Royal Society Open Science published a survey of 100 researchers of ...

When I received Multiple Gold Medal–Winning Author Milana Anderson's latest book Animal Fairy Tales: Bedtime Animal Short Stories for Kids (Book Ten: Touch of Love) and started reading it, I couldn't ...

Overall, people are better at detecting the intensity of the emotion in zoo animals rather than whether it’s a good or bad one. Humans were better at recognizing negative zoo animal emotions than ...