Guest Opinion. Altruism is helping without a benefit and sometimes at a risk to one’s self. Animals helping others of their own species makes sense to perpetuate the species or help continue their own ...

Incidents that make us consider the relationship between humans and wild animals are happening all over Japan, from bear ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: With more than 100,000 people in need of an organ transplant in the U.S. alone, scientists have turned toward perfecting human-animal chimeras as a ...

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 ...

There is an ever-growing multidisciplinary interest in the nature of human-animal relationships. 1 When I first learned about Professor Laurent Bègue-Shankland's new award-winning book, The Social ...

Over time, the general size of animals changes. That's a normal part of evolution. Sometimes, environmental factors may cause a species to grow smaller; a century later, the animals' descendants might ...

Feeding wild animals might seem like a harmless act of kindness, but it often carries serious and unintended consequences.