For the first time, behavioral ecologists studied the impact of maternal stress on primate infants in the wild. Researchers followed non-human primate mothers through their gestation and their infants ...

Frolicking, wrestling, climbing, jumping -- Playing is a lot of fun and promotes development but is also very strenuous. Behavioral biologists therefore suspect that animals only play intensively if ...

Older people who are sleepy during the day or lack enthusiasm for activities due to sleep issues may be more likely to develop a syndrome that can lead to dementia, according to a study published in ...

For the first time, behavioral ecologists studied the impact of maternal stress on primate infants in the wild. At their field station in Thailand, researchers of the German Primate Center - Leibniz ...