"Whispers From the Wild" by Susan B. Eirich, Ph.D. Source: Jamie Chrisman, used with permission. Humans are all over the place, and because of our peripatetic and trespassing proclivities, far too ...

While some commenters are busy swooning over these sweet creatures, others are still in shock that hamsters are wild animals! This could be because some hamster species have gone extinct in the wild ...

Many people want to get close to wild animals, and with so many adorable creatures, such as the red panda and penguin, it's easy to understand why. While many keep their distance, some wild animals ...

The biologists determined that city-dwelling North American raccoons (Procyon lotor) have snouts that are 3.5% shorter than ...

People love their pets. Around 60% of the U.S. population owns at least one pet and collectively spends more than $100 billion on them every year. But do any other animals have that kind of drive to ...

Why can't we stop anthropomorphizing our animal friends and foes? Illustration by Emily Lankiewicz / Orca image from Christopher Michel via Wikimedia Commons under CC-BY 2.0 / Bird and dolphin via ...