In his book “The Intimate Animal,” sex and relationships researcher Justin Garcia says people have miscalculated their need ...

Nate Heygi: This is Karyn Anderson. She’s a primate behavioral ecologist at the University of Toronto. She studies same-sex relationships in the animal kingdom. And she says, first off, there are ...

Jan. 8 (UPI) --A West Virginia animal shelter shared security camera footage of an escape artist dog getting out of his kennel, unlocking the front door and leaving. The Huntington Cabell Wayne Animal ...

The new science of human-animal interactions, anthrozoology, rests on a premis by the French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss. "Animals," he wrote, "are good to think with." His point was that we ...

There is an ever-growing multidisciplinary interest in the nature of human-animal relationships. 1 When I first learned about Professor Laurent Bègue-Shankland's new award-winning book, The Social ...

Dec. 4 (UPI) --There are many persuasive reasons to love animals: they can be cute, cuddly and occasionally even hilarious. But sometimes even the most precious pets and winsome wildlife can find ...

This tiny frog has gone viral thanks to a call that sounds more like a squeaky toy than a living creature. Researchers captured the bizarre sound during field recordings and were stunned by its ...

We like happy stories about teammates who are also friends. We are suckers for “good clubhouse guys,” and always wary of “locker room lawyers.” If you’re a fan, the soundness of your sleep generally ...

Animal control is used to dealing with stray cats and dogs. But what happens when there’s a peacock strutting down the alley? A coyote walked into a Quizno’s in downtown Chicago on a spring day in ...

In two national parks in Vietnam, new species were found blending in with tree trunks. Constant J, Pham T-H, Nguyen HTT (2025) ZooKeys The summaries below were drafted with the help of AI tools and ...

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PARMA HEIGHTS, Ohio -- Parma Heights Animal Control Officer Miranda Braude never knows what she’s walking into when on a call. “We’ve definitely had odd animals over the year -- a dwarf caiman and a ...