Source: Gleive Marcio Rodrigues de Souza/Pexels. I've long been interested in what nonhuman animals (animals) know and feel about death and dying including if they know when others are dying. 1 I'm ...

In nature, survival is rarely about brute strength alone. Many species rely on intelligence, adaptation and deception to navigate the constant struggle between predator and prey. Some pretend to be ...

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 ...

The post Animals That Fake Their Own Death appeared first on A-Z Animals. Running, fighting, and hiding are not the only ways animals escape. Some take a much more dramatic approach. They go ...

Part of the charge to the committee was to examine scientifically the causes of recent animal deaths at the zoo. The committee evaluated available documentation on the care provided to 33 animals at ...

A new study has found that the wild can be a "death trap" for animals that are released from captivity after previously being rescued. The research, published in the journal Global Ecology and ...

Washington, DC—Today, the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) released a first-of-its-kind report highlighting the more than 2.7 million US farm animals who perished in potentially preventable barn fires ...