During the summer months, the voles are largely solitary. However, throughout the long, harsh winters, they form small ...

UK households face a major UK animal law change "for most of the year" under the Labour Party government. Shooting hares in ...

Animals that navigate extreme conditions and environments have evolved to sleep in extreme ways — for example, stealing seconds at a time during around-the-clock parenting, getting winks on the wing ...

When animals nod off, they're most vulnerable to sneaky predators. But despite the risks, the need for sleep is so strong ...

If bowhead whales produce particularly varied and diverse calls in one area, it is very likely that the area is a breeding ...

Since we can’t talk to them, most folks' knowledge of animals begins and ends with some biology classes and maybe a pet, ...

One of the fundamental rules of inheritance states that different alleles (gene copies) of a trait, such as sex, are inherited with equal frequency. "However, we have long known that there are genes ...

Male bonobos have an impressive ability to detect when females are most fertile, even though the usual visual cues are ...

Until Michigan lawmakers intervened, incidents at Michigan zoos involving a raccoon-turned-trespasser and an aggressive pygmy hippo threatened breeding programs zoo leaders describe as critical to ...

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Humans are far more monogamous than our primate cousins, but less so than beavers, a new study suggests. Researchers from the University of Cambridge in England analyzed the proportion of full ...