Animal Behavior
What Doesn’t Animal Behavior Tell Us?
It is important to avoid seeing animal abilities and behavior as evidence for an unverifiable evolutionary past. Evolutionary thinking pretends we humans are just animals, not accountable to God or responsible to acknowledge Jesus Christ as Creator and Redeemer.
Animal Intelligence
God created many different kinds of animals that are highly intelligent. Animal cleverness isn’t a legacy of evolution. Even while we appreciate the intelligence God gave animals and marvel at their capabilities, we should remember that humans are different from animals in one important way: we were created in God’s image (Genesis 1:27).
Electrical Charges Direct Bees to Nectar
How do bees know which flowers to visit to load up on nectar? Which flowers have already been plundered? A team from the U.K.’s University of Bristol believes the attraction is electrical. God created plants and animals able to reproduce successfully, so we can conclude He created them with these symbiotic relationships, or with the ability to adapt to form them.
Unexpectedly Vegetarian Animals—What Does it Mean?
At the beginning of creation, there was no death and animals were created to be vegetarian. But people often claim that animals like spiders, birds of prey, and cats could not possibly have survived as vegetarians. Is such a claim true?
Animal Behavior Topics
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Animal Intelligence
Many animals, such as chimps, dolphins, and crows, are remarkably smart. These cleverly designed creatures clearly display the intelligence of their Creator.
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Animal Migration
After animals came off the Ark following the Flood and spread across the earth, they established complex migratory patterns that continue to puzzle scientists.
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What Animals Eat
The herbivorous diets of many traditionally carnivorous animals provide a glimpse into the original creation when all animals were vegetarians.
Articles About Animal Behavior
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Jan. 22, 2024 from Ken Ham Blog
What might seem commonplace since we’re so used to hearing birds sing, is actually very complex—and a new study just revealed yet another layer of complexity.
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Dec. 13, 2023 from Answers Magazine
As we listen in on animal communication, it seems clear that animals have their own form of language. How does this knowledge affect our responsibility to steward God’s creatures?
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April 1, 2023 from Answers Magazine
While some animal fathers were created to simply pass on their DNA and then stay away, God created others to go above and beyond to protect and provide.
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Jan. 21, 2023 from Answers Magazine
Astonishing examples of high intelligence in “lower” animals point to an all-knowing Creator.
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Jan. 1, 2023 from Answers Magazine
It took human intervention to transform wild beasts into domestic farm animals and household pets. So when did this transformation happen?
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June 5, 2022 from Answers Magazine
The Creator equipped numerous animals, large and small, with astonishing tools to find their way as they migrate around the world.
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Jan. 1, 2022 from Answers Magazine
Evolution can’t account for an animal’s ability to regrow limbs or heal its body. But regeneration like this points to an all-wise Creator.
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Oct. 1, 2021 from Answers Magazine
These animal escape artists know how to get away in style.
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Jan. 1, 2021 from Answers Magazine
It’s not personal. Just survival.
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Oct. 1, 2020 from Answers Magazine
Scientists are constantly finding new ways that animals use tools.
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Oct. 1, 2020 from Answers Magazine
These absent parents, extortioners, and interlopers are a reminder of the fall. But their intelligence showcases the Creator’s brilliant design.
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June 30, 2019 from Answers Magazine
Nature isn’t all peace and beauty. But even the dark side of creation can tell us something about God’s grace.
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Nov. 28, 2018 from Answers in Depth
References to Noah’s Ark abound in the culture and even have been used to describe recent efforts to store strains of microbes (instead of animals).
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Nov. 17, 2018 from Answers in Depth
Evolutionists have serious problems with interspecific animal adoptions, while creationists are in a much better position when it comes to discussing the topic.
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March 3, 2018 from Answers in Depth
Is this an example of evolution in action or a designed adaptive feature input into the lizard kind’s genome?
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Nov. 26, 2017 from Answers Magazine
Despite all our advances with human flight, we don’t come close to matching the wonder of birds and their feathered flight.
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Oct. 1, 2016 from Answers Magazine
Birds are smarter than primates, according to a study published in a recent issue of PNAS.
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In-Depth ArticleHave Evolutionists Found the Root of REM Sleep?May 19, 2016 from Answers in Depth
Does the discovery that sleeping dragons as well as mammals and birds experience REM sleep support the evolutionary story of their common ancestry with humans?
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Jan. 27, 2016 from Answers in Depth
The only positive evidence supporting the assertion that these dinosaurs were dancing for mates is that some modern birds engage in ritual courtship dances.
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Oct. 25, 2015 from Answers Magazine
The colugo glides like no other mammal on earth and proves that our ingenious Creator knows how to surprise us.
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In-Depth ArticlePeacock Tail Feathers Don’t Drag Them DownOct. 2, 2014 from Answers in Depth
Evolution explains neither the peacock’s beauty nor its aerodynamic efficiency.
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In-Depth ArticleMouse Memory Enhanced By Humanized “Language Gene”Sept. 25, 2014 from Answers in Depth
With mice and men, practice makes perfect, but a mouse with a man’s FOXp2 gene achieves perfection faster.
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Empathy or Imitation—Do Chimps Yawn Because They Care?Oct. 28, 2013 from News to Know
Some scientists think contagious yawning is connected to the ability to empathize. Chimpanzees “empathize” as they mature, but do they really understand?
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Does Your Dog Yawn Because He Cares?Aug. 19, 2013 from News to Know
What does your doggie’s copycat yawn reveal about evolution?
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Evolution Through the Eye of the BeholderAug. 8, 2013 from News to Know
Can a birds’ eye view explain the evolution of animal ornamentation and courtship behavior?
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Bees Bond on the RightJuly 18, 2013 from News to Know
Honeybees depend on their right antennae to differentiate friends from foes, scientists have learned.
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Magazine ArticleJungle DoctorsJune 16, 2013 from Answers Magazine
Many of God’s creatures find their own herbal remedies … without a doctor’s help! They know where to look for medicine all around them.
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UK Academic: Wildlife Documentaries Need More Gay AnimalsMarch 9, 2013 from News to Know
Wildlife documentaries are too family friendly, complains UK academic.
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How a Multitude of Homing Pigeons VanishedMarch 2, 2013 from News to Know
How 60,000 homing pigeons got lost when something disturbed the sounds of silence.
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Electrical Charges Direct Bees to NectarMarch 2, 2013 from News to Know
How do bees know which flowers to visit to load up on nectar? Which flowers have already been plundered?
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Animal Sexual BehaviorAug. 15, 2012 from News to Know
Biologists take journalists to task for teasing titillation.
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Magazine ArticleDying to Live Another DayJuly 1, 2012 from Answers Magazine
God gave certain creatures an amazing ability to shut down their bodies—in suspended animation—until circumstances get better.
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What Doesn’t Animal Behavior Tell Us?June 9, 2012 from News to Know
A “cold and calculating chimp,” canines catching yawns, and harmonious hyraxes—what doesn’t animal behavior tell us?
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Bird Bro-mance Behavior in Zebra Finches Trumps MatingAug. 20, 2011 from News to Know
Bonded bird behavior in same-sex partners: what does it mean?
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Super-Sized TeamworkMarch 12, 2011 from News to Know
Elephants’ ability to intentionally cooperate has boosted them into an “elite group” of animals, BBC News reports.
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Mourning ChimpanzeesFeb. 5, 2011 from News to Know
Last May we covered research that suggested chimpanzees “provide special attention to loved ones before they die and grieve afterward,” which unsurprisingly prompted comparisons to human behavior
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Animals’ “Right to Privacy”May 8, 2010
Do animals have a “right to privacy”? Or are such “animal-hugger” claims the logical consequence of evolutionary views only?
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Chimp Stones Zoo VisitorsMarch 14, 2009 from News to Know
The almost humorous—yet sad—story of a frustrated chimp throwing stones at zoo visitors could come straight out of a children’s story.
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Crocodiles and Humans Coexisting in African VillageNov. 8, 2008 from News to Know
It may not be dinosaurs living side-by-side with humans, but it’s close!
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Cattle Align Bodies North to South With Compass QualityAug. 30, 2008
Out for a vigorous hike and lose your way? No need to reach for that compass; just be on the lookout for deer or cattle instead.
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Reciprocal Rodents: the Giving RatsJuly 7, 2007
Charitable rats are making headlines after a study published in PLoS Biology proffers evidence that “rats who received help in the past were more likely to help another unknown partner.”
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Selflessness in ApesJune 30, 2007
An experiment conducted in the Ngamba Island Chimpanzee Sanctuary in Uganda has provided possible support for chimp altruism.
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Magazine ArticleLiving Like AnimalsMarch 1, 1998, pp. 6–7
… the average young Australian, who believes what he is taught, believes the evolutionary dogma that he is only an animal who arrived by chance, lives by his wits, survives to breed and will die …
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