When it comes to affectionate and friendly animals, most people opt for cats or dogs, but there are others who take a more interesting route, choosing rodents, birds, reptiles, or fish. Signs that a ...

How can you resist the charm of an innocent, sweet soul? While people can be complicated, relationships often become messy, ...

Shankland's award-winning interdisciplinary book examines our dominance of and affection for animals and how empathy toward ...

Cumberland Valley Animal Shelter answers your pet-related questions. Oxytocin may offer a clue into the ability for animals to love, and one reader wonders if her friend is crazy for not knowing a cat ...

So, you think you can dance? Animal Edition. Many animals are known to move their bodies in ways that resemble human dancing. Whether it's for mating rituals or simply in response to music, animals ...

I really enjoy working with youngsters and talking about animal behavior, conservation, and human-animal relationships, or as one kid said, it should be called animal-human relationships. Many ...

A new book looks at the health links between animals and humans. June 12, 2012— -- intro: Dr. Barbara Natterson-Horowitz is a sort of modern day Dr. Dolittle. For the past six years, the UCLA ...

Some say the oldest known human settlement is Uruk, in modern-day Iraq. Others say Jericho, in Palestine. Wherever it is, it must be the place where synurbization—the process of wildlife adapting to ...

There are plenty of things that animals can do that we can’t. I don’t know any humans who can fly, swim for thousands of miles at a time or survive in the Arctic without a coat. But despite the ...

How can you resist the charm of an innocent, sweet soul? While people can be complicated, relationships often become messy, and personalities sometimes clash, nothing quite compares to the ...