An international team of scientists made a strange discovery recently. They found that as female southern pied babblers age, they produce more offspring — but they become stupider in the process.

There is an upward limit to how hot daily air temperatures can get before birds can no longer successfully breed, indicating that rapidly advancing climate change will have widespread and destructive ...

Giving birth to a baby is a very energy-consuming affair for mothers of many animals, including humans. A new paper published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B shows that Southern pied ...

Natural selection suggests that individuals should act selfishly, but new research published in Current Biology today (17 April) reveals a rare example of co-operative behaviour in the animal world.

Like gangsters running a protection racket, drongos in the Kalahari Desert act as lookouts for other birds in order to steal a cut of their food catch. The behaviour, revealed in research funded by ...

Announcing your presence would seem to be a bad strategy for a bird that survives through kleptoparasitism—stealing food from others. But that's just what the fork-tailed drongo (Dicrurus adsimilis) ...

Crafty birds African fork-tailed drongos mimic the alarm calls of a range of other local bird species to trick their neighbours into leaving their food unattended over and over again, a new study has ...