Two recent papers focus on our closest relatives: chimpanzees and bonobos. They claim these apes combine vocalisations in ways that suggest a capacity for compositionality, a key feature of human ...

A new book looks at the health links between animals and humans. June 12, 2012— -- intro: Dr. Barbara Natterson-Horowitz is a sort of modern day Dr. Dolittle. For the past six years, the UCLA ...

These may be extreme examples of what-not-to-do with wild animals, but they highlight problems that B.C.'s Conservation Officer Service encounter. (Karen Richardson and Wolftracker TV and B.C.

They say dogs are a man’s best friend so here’s a reason to celebrate that special bond - it’s Human-Animal Relationship Week ...

If there's one thing social media loves, it's a Disney-like moment with a wild animal. There's the much-loved video with the golden retriever who's best friends with a deer, or the one where a woman ...

Peeps trickle out of a soundproof chamber as its door opens. Female zebra finches are chattering away inside the microphone-lined box. The laboratory room sounds like a chorus of squeaky toys.

The Food and Drug Administration and National Institutes of Health held a joint workshop July 7 on reducing animal testing in research, strikingly announcing that “NIH will no longer seek proposals ...

A new study by University of Toronto researchers has found that kids’ books featuring animals with human characteristics not only lead to less factual learning but also influence children’s reasoning ...

Merging animal and human forms brought terror to our ancestors – and this fear persists right the way into our modern age. In Greek mythology, the Chimera is a ...

A global study shows animals are moving distances two to three times shorter in areas disturbed by humans than in the wilderness. The study, which is to be published Friday in the journal Science, ...

From 2017: Around the world, environmentalists have been arguing for the rights of animals and entire ecosystems in the courts—and they’re winning For environmental lawyer and University of British ...