I’m always leery of claims that humans are uniquely exceptional, that we are better than nonhuman animals (animals) at dealing with the demands of our daily lives, that we are more highly evolved, ...

Six-month-old babies show stress responses when viewing images of snakes and spiders, long before they could have learned ...

You wouldn't imagine that elephants would be scared of much, considering their size, but it seems they are terrified of bees. Now, this fear is being used to thwart human-elephant conflict, helping to ...

In addition to exposing weaknesses in our land management policy and practices in terms of irrigation and road infrastructure ...

Zoo elephants were the source of a tuberculosis outbreak in 2013 in Multnomah County, Ore., according to a recent article in the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. The public health ...

What Happens When Roadways Intersect Wildlife Corridors? When you think of elephants in the wild, you likely think of a majestic herd peacefully walking through the grasslands, nowhere near ...

Pointing at something is one of those human universals that we do without thinking. We start showing infants objects by pointing very early, and when they get it—when they look at what we’re ...

Human-wildlife conflict research has often focused on ways such apex predators as lions, tigers and wolves endanger humans, impact livelihoods and threaten livestock, but a pair of Clemson University ...