Nonhuman animals (animals) are constantly "talking" with one another using sounds, smells, visual signals, and various combinations thereof. In his fascinating new book titled Why Animals Talk: The ...

The manatee (Trichechus) is an herbivore that is not aggressive and doesn't prey on other species. A manatee is a peaceful beast that spends much of the day sleeping and swimming lazily. Inconsistent ...

A keeper at the Oklahoma City Zoo one day noticed that Eko, a Sumatran tiger, kept rubbing his face on the side of the fence, breaking all his whiskers. A team started treating the tiger with ...

Researchers from the Cluster of Excellence Collective Behavior have developed a computer vision framework for posture estimation and identity tracking that they can use in indoor environments as well ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE: A healthy product of the White Abalone Recovery Project as seen shell side up in the lab at the Aquarium of the Pacific in ...

A study led by a scientist at the University of California San Diego offers new warnings on the dangers of human interactions with wildlife. Assistant Professor Shermin de Silva of the School of ...

Rachel Feltman: Who here grew up loving animals? Personally, I had a five-foot-long [one-and-a-half-meter-long] iguana who taught himself to use the cat’s litter box. That dude was the best. But, of ...

Scientists are concerned that the H5N1 virus could set off another human pandemic. But it is already putting species under pressure in the wild. By Emily Anthes Every spring, more than 200,000 ...