If humans can grow meat in labs, we could feed wild predators and reduce predation in nature.

When large and warty cane toads were first brought to Australia nearly 100 years ago, they had a simple mission: to gobble up beetles and other pests in the sugarcane fields. Today, though, the toads ...

Commenters were floored. Onlooker captures video of tourists' reckless behavior near massive wild animal: 'Why?' first ...

Learn about the surprising ways wild animals experience natural intoxicants, from fermented fruits to hallucinogenic plants. Cedar waxwings eat a lot of berries, which can sometimes become fermented ...

Psychologists know that childhood trauma, or the experience of harmful or adverse events, can have lasting repercussions on the health and well-being of people well into adulthood. But while the ...

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Books about writers’ dogs and cats are a literary staple. Now there’s a booming subset of memoirs about writers’ relationships with less domestic creatures. By Alexandra Alter Alexandra Alter’s ...

'Animal Ethics in the Wild' by Catia Faria. Source: Cambridge University Press, with permission. As a long-time field researcher, I've seen my share of pain, suffering, and death in various wild ...

To survive in the harsh wild, many animals turn to drastic measures for food. An example of this is a feeding strategy known ...

Wild animals are less susceptible to human disturbance if they live in areas with a high human footprint. Researchers have highlighted this in their analysis of large-scale tracking data of more than ...