Human beings are often said to be the only animals who truly have a “mind” in the way that term is commonly used. But that view has been challenged over the past several decades. That challenge arises ...

Many animals survive predation by running, fighting, or hiding. However, some take a much stranger approach: they play dead.

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More animals are being run over on Los Angeles streets than ever before, and the lingering effects of the pandemic may be partly to blame. Numbers steadily rising: Through November of this year, the ...

A woman who, police claim, fled to Belize last year and abandoned over 100 animals at a Bucks County farm, leaving them to starve and allowing several to die, has been returned to police custody in ...

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Drought conditions have left over 2 million people facing hunger in parts of Kenya, with cattle-keeping communities in the northeast the hardest hit, according to the United ...