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 ...

Humans are not the only animals that mark death – across the animal kingdom, scientists have documented behaviours that seem ...

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 ...

“The bird was dead when the children found it.” So begins the 1938 picture book, The Dead Bird, for young children by Margaret Wise Brown. Brown understood the significance of a young child’s early ...