ENVIRONMENT & CLIMATEZoos are places for animal captivity. Read to learn more. While zoo visits may seem like fun and educational experiences, they are places of captivity for animals.
A new type of crustacean trace fossil from Texas shows animals trapped in a tidal pool before they first emerged onto land. Read the article to find out more.
A mother alligator is seen in Florida, limping to the nest and taking it apart to get her babies. What does this animal behavior mean? Read to find out.
Decision-making skills are commonly observed in most vertebrate animals. Read on to know how this smaller species with only few neurons can do the same.
Researchers recently recorded the changing honks of seven different hippopotamus groups living in the lake-field Maputo Special Reserve of Mozambique and played them back to each of the groups from a loudspeaker.
Some species would threaten to blackmail their relatives to force cooperation in rearing the young and gathering as much DNA in the gene pool as possible.
A study found that kangaroos could "talk to humans" using a unique gaze. Totally undomesticated animals such as kangaroos can deliberately communicate with human beings, reversing the script on the notion of deliberate association from animals to humans, just transpiring with occurring in animals such as horses, goats, or dogs.
A study from the University of Jena, Germany looks at the high-risk behaviors of animals driven by poor nutritional conditions. Hunger can influence animals to migrate or explore new places in search of food.
Kuno, the Belgian Malinois who has completed two Afghanistan tours, is set to receive the prestigious Dickin Medal—the animals' Victoria Cross—for his heroic service.
In order for the team to support the claims of their study, they tracked social relationships during the course of the cross seasons for the 400-species population of Vulturine Guineafowl. After marking these birds, the team discovered that there are at least 18 distinct social groups within the population that are comprised of 13 to 65 individuals each.
Research has proven that rats place more value on saving others than obtaining a food reward. Rats, especially those who have nearly drowned in the past, will resuce each other from drowning. They experience a kind of empathy.