There are few things more joyful, if occasionally nerve-wracking, than having a pet in your home. And plenty of people agree.

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

Humans have built lucrative industries out of safari trips: candid on-the-ground looks at wild animals in their natural ...

City-dwelling raccoons are physically changing as they adapt to human environments. They are, however, still wild animals.

Researchers from the University of Cape Town (UCT), working with international collaborators, have shown that people in ...

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 ...

Few animals look as calm and harmless as a hippo lounging in the water, but appearances can be deceiving. Dangerously so, in ...

Wild animals across the globe are increasingly contracting diseases that were once considered uniquely human problems, from ...