Southern California wildlife experts are urging the public not to shoot birds of prey, including eagles, hawks and other raptors. “When a raptor is shot, it is not an accident. It is an intentional act of harm against a wild animal,

It might seem astounding that a wild animal could survive a limb amputation and still thrive in the wild but videos from social media and research show this may be more common than people realize. Many wild animals not only survive the health risks of ...

Every year, at the end of August, Travis Livieri drives into the grasslands of South Dakota’s Conata Basin, where, armed with spotlights and syringes, he spends his nights scooping up subjects for a grand experiment they could not hope to understand.

Why can't we stop anthropomorphizing our animal friends and foes? Illustration by Emily Lankiewicz / Orca image from Christopher Michel via Wikimedia Commons under CC-BY 2.0 / Bird and dolphin via Pixabay It’s not the most urgent news story that’s ...

According to the story, the black bear took a wounded raccoon and later a fox to a wildlife center where it had been treated.

Have you ever seen a dog or cat nibble grass from the lawn? Many household pets, as well as birds, bees, lizards, elephants, and chimpanzees in the wild, sometimes eat things that cure their illnesses, heal their injuries, prevent diseases, kill parasites ...

New GPS tracking on African wild dogs found they could travel long distances to find mates, but more than half did not survive the journey.

They can act inadvertently witty, comically clumsy, laughingly foolish or simply truly funny. But are they aware of it? Do wild animals have a sense of humor? Or are humans the only species to possess that characteristic? It’s an old debate with many ...