I love animals in the most committed way possible. If replacing every human in my life with an animal were a viable lifestyle choice, I would have done it already. And believe it or not, I think they ...

Nature can be intense. Predators hunt prey, animals migrate across continents, and survival is a daily challenge. But sometimes nature is just plain hilarious. Whether it’s a bear flopping down spread ...

The persistent presence of humans and their infrastructure in U.S. national parks has yielded dramatic changes in the behaviors of large animals who live there, a new study has found. Even during the ...

A study that observed five species of mammals in northeast São Paulo state reveals that most animals change their routines to escape contact with humans, usually by adopting nocturnal habits. For the ...

Walnut was born on June 3, 1995, at the start of what would become an unusually hot summer, on an island called Rum (pronounced room), the largest of the Small Isles off the west coast of Scotland. We ...

Ecologists have long sought clarity on the dietary habits of different animal species. For scientists, it wasn't obvious how herbivores in Yellowstone National Park, who subsist on grasses, ...

To a casual visitor, these can look like odd habits or animal “quirks.” But to animal welfare researchers and zookeepers, ...

For years, scientists could only guess when wild animals were asleep. Now, miniaturized versions of sleep lab equipment are revealing the extreme and somewhat quirky ways animals snooze while flying, ...

The way household dogs engage with TV may depend on their personalities, suggests research published in Scientific Reports. Excitable dogs were more likely to follow on-screen objects while fearful or ...