To find food, dazzle mates, escape predators and navigate diverse terrain, birds rely on their excellent color vision. “Humans are color-blind compared to birds and many other animals,” said Mary ...

Among wild animals, color makes little difference, and gray squirrels are a good example. Black will mate with gray; white will mate with gray or black, and gray will mate with either. This column is, ...

Some animals we know have amazing abilities to change their form, especially when it comes to their color. Although, of course, these color-changing animals delight us, the power of camouflage plays ...

Feral hogs with "slushie-blue" innards turned up in Monterey earlier this year—and not for the first time. A young wild boar stands at Joseph D. Grant County Park in Santa Clara County, California.

Walter Veit receives funding from the Representing Evolution project that has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation ...

A new study examines indicators of mental wellbeing in wild animals to improve conservation efforts. A world-first holistic framework for assessing the mental and psychological wellbeing of wild ...