This video provides a detailed overview of koalas, highlighting their unique physical characteristics, diet, behavior, mating habits, and life cycle. It explains how koalas have adapted to survive on a diet of eucalyptus leaves and...

Many animals, from insects to humans, are social. Their brains have evolved to be sensitive to sensory cues that carry social information, such as: speech sounds, pheromones and visual cues. But very little is known about how...

We touched upon sexual selection when we learned about natural selection. Essentially when there is a variance in the reproductive success of a particular sex for a given species, secondary sex characteristics will develop in that...

Michael Goodisman is digging up the dirt on yellow jackets' peculiar sex lives by studying their nests, behavior, and genetic make-up. With support from the National Science Foundation, he is getting a better understanding of what drives...

Asexual reproduction only needs one parent; all the offspring are clones. This means they are genetically identical to one another and to the parent. Many plants use asexual reproduction, like spider plants. Bacteria also reproduce...

In this video Janet Treasure discusses how in helping someone with an eating disorder it can be important to adopt a soft gentle tone in order to help understand the person better.

This video highlights the importance of courtship behaviors in animals for successful reproduction. These behaviors help animals locate, select, and bond with a suitable mate, ensuring the continuation of their species. Animal Behavior...

Professor Lawrence Gilbert and his team at the University of Texas at Austin have discovered a population of tropical butterflies that exemplify ""evolution in action,"" and a rare research opportunity. Gilbert says they may be...

Michael Goodisman is digging up the dirt on yellow jackets' peculiar sex lives by studying their nests, behavior, and genetic make-up. With support from the National Science Foundation, he is getting a better understanding of what drives...