Anting is a behavior in which birds deliberately place ants among their feathers or allow ants to crawl over their bodies.

Discover a fascinating natural behavior known as anting, as birds deliberately cover themselves with ants in the forest.

This is how we do it. I'm talking about birds. Every so often, they, like us, let loose and do what it takes to feel really, really good. The bird version is to sit on an anthill so that hundreds of ...

Here's a crazy story for you. The other day I put mothballs around my garden in an effort to keep the critters out. The next day I noticed that a flock of grackles had discovered the mothballs and ...

Photographer Tony Austin recently captured a peculiar image of a crow with its wings covered in dozens of tiny black ants in the throes of what appeared to be a behaviour he described as a "very odd ...

Here's a crazy story for you. The other day I put mothballs around my garden in an effort to keep the critters out. The next day I noticed that a flock of grackles had discovered the mothballs and ...

Bird expert says capturing an image of a crow while anting is a rare occurrence Photographer Tony Austin recently captured a peculiar image of a crow with its wings covered in dozens of tiny black ...

NILGIRIS: A rare behavioural study by researchers in the Nilgiris has documented two crow species engaging in anting using the invasive yellow crazy ant (Anoplolepis gracilipes), marking the first ...

This article originally appeared on VICE Romania. I recently found out that some species of birds are known to have a drug habit. Before you nod off into some daydream about birds railing lines in a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photographer Tony Austin of Metchosin, B.C., said he had no idea what he was observing until he enlarged this image of crows at ...