Human societies have long depended on the division of labor to thrive—walk into any town, and you can probably find bakers baking bread, truck drivers driving that bread to market and grocers selling ...

German-born American political cartoonist Thomas Nast popularised the illustrations of donkeys and elephants, representing ...

44.3 x 59.5 cm. (17.4 x 23.4 in.) ...

The question isn’t whether other creatures share our concept of mortality; it’s whether any living being truly grasps what it ...

As behavioral ecologists, we are interested in how adverse experiences early in life can affect animals' behavior, including the kinds of decisions they make and the way they interact with the ...

The animal lived about 70 million to 75 million years ago in a part of the state that would likely have been a swampy environment.

Wild animals also experience adversity. Although their negative experiences are easy to dismiss as part of life in the wild, they still have lifelong repercussions – just like traumatic events ...

According to legend, Queen Cleopatra had a favorite cat named Tivali. Cats are also highly regarded in Islam, though no animals are worshipped in that religion. Muslims consider cats clean animals, ...

IX. 23. THE PIGMY HOG (Porcula salvania).—Few additions to the Zoological Society's living collection of late years have attracted more attention than the Pigmy Hogs of Nepaul, of which the ...