Psychologists say you can learn a lot about human nature by studying how people behave toward other animals. So a group of scientists put a fake turtle and a fake snake on the road and watched to see how drivers reacted.
All across the planet, animals are on the move. And on National Geographic ‘s new TV series, you can see all their amazing migrations: the largest, the longest, one of the strangest, and what may be the most feared
Nobody expected a positive outcome, especially after the failure of the climate change summit in Copenhagen a year ago. But the meeting in Japan of delegates…
“Tigers never look you in the eyes,” says one of the winners of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year award. “They never stare at you. Tigers are cool. They’re not bothered by humans.” Here are some of the other top photos
A highway patrol officer in Russia had just stopped a driver on the M23 in Rostov-on-Don, when a pack of 11 wolves came racing down the…
This Arctic tern was first identified 30 years ago. Since then, she’s being flying pole-to-pole migrations every year. That’s roughly a million miles. And she rears her young, feeds and educates them. That’s quite a mom!
Let’s leave rehab to the professionals By Liz Stelow, D.V.M. “There’s a woman named Judy here with a red-tailed hawk,” our receptionist told me. I thanked…
Congress bans depictions of gratuitous cruelty, but it’s right there on family TV By Michael Mountain I’m struggling to understand the difference between what you see…
Is the Discovery Channel showing graphic violence to attract a particular demographic and to increase its profits? “Yes,” says author Jonathan Balcombe, “and that’s how cynically I view this program.”
The rescue of hundreds of rabbits from the grounds of the University of Victoria in Canada polarizes a community. Is there hope for the rabbits?
More and more, conservationists are looking to school kids, retirees and just plain folks to help catalogue wildlife. Citizen scientists can count backyard butterflies, songbirds and…
It turns out that nine out of 156 tortoises living in captivity are directly related to the Chelonoidis elephantopus, a Galapagos tortoise species that whalers hunted…
Polar bears are losing their homelands as the ice melts around them. But some of them are getting help. It’s not news that polar bear habitat…
How pigeon lofts are good news for birds – and also for cities By Marleen Drijgers. (Photos by Regina Jockwer) (Editor’s Note: In her previous post,…
On a visit to an island sanctuary, a woman feeds porridge to a baby chimp, holds a teenage chimp in her arms, and gets groomed.
Should you pick them up? Who should you call? What’s the best way to help? Some things you should always do, sometimes do, and never do.
A Montana woman helped save her dog from a bear with the help of a zucchini, the Billings Gazette reports. It was bedtime in Missoula County,…
A scary encounter with squirrels gives a future veterinarian her first lesson in wildlife. Why people and animals should appreciate one another – from a distance.
Twelve thousand feet up in the Himalayas live a people who lack for nothing, grow a surplus of food, and have done this for hundreds of years. Their most impressive surplus is time. How they do it and what we can learn.
City officials brought in possums to combat rats. What they got: plenty of both. Trying to outwit Mother Nature several years ago, city officials introduced opossums into…