Elephant societies respond to death in ways that look uncannily similar to our own reactions. Here’s why it has researchers ...

Town officials said the officers "employed the safest available method under the circumstances to euthanize the animal and ...

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Is complex social behavior genetically determined? Yes, as a team of biologists from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf ...

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From a small island off the coast of Panama to the farthest reaches of space, the Smithsonian advanced our knowledge of the ...

Born into an aristocratic British family, he turned his empathy and knowledge of the world’s largest land mammals to the cause of saving them from poachers. Excerpt from “A Life Among Elephants,” ...

The human brain is a fascinating and complex organ that supports numerous sophisticated behaviors and abilities that are ...