STOCKHOLM (AP) — People around the world were stunned when Copenhagen Zoo killed a healthy 2-year-old giraffe named Marius, butchered its carcass in front of a crowd that included children and then ...

Julie, once a circus elephant, and Kariba, from a Belgian zoo, are to be moved to a former ranch in Portugal ...

I’ll never forget my first “hawk walk.” It was at Ireland’s School of Falconry (just outside of Cong, north of Galway), where ...

Wild mammals on Earth are in big trouble. In the cold light of ecological arithmetic, they barely register anymore. Of all the mammalian biomass on the planet, just 4% is still wild. The rest — us and ...

Neanderthals hunted giant elephants and pursued them over hundreds of miles across Europe, according to a new study of fossils unearthed in Germany. Previous research confirmed that Neanderthals ...

A new study shows that human hunting and land use have a decisive influence on red deer density in Europe. Red deer density is only reduced when wolves, lynx and bears co-occur at the same site. A new ...

Surekha Davies is a historian of science and the author of Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human. She is currently based in the Netherlands. It’s an enduring myth that the development ...

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