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.

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 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 ...

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 ...

Olga Lazareva does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

I've followed Dr. Clive Phillips' wide-ranging career and his eclectic transdisciplinary views of animal welfare and animal-human relationships. Clive was Australia's first professor of animal welfare ...

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, ...

In the United Kingdom (UK), officials are planning to phase out animal testing through a new strategy that is expected to ...