Decades of data reveal that animals involved in the wildlife trade—from pet sales to meat markets to illegal poaching—are ...

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A meta-analysis combined about 30 years of wildlife studies to examine how animals respond to human activity. Animals usually show stronger fear responses in areas with hunting or lethal human ...

As ships return to the Strait of Hormuz, mines, sonar, and congestion continue to reshape the Gulf beneath the surface.

Why is it that a squirrel may calmly take food from a picnic table while a deer runs as if its life depends on it at the snap of a twig? For years, ecologists have asked whether animals always treat ...

People sell wild animals for food and for traditional medicine — legally and illegally. A study looks at the risks of ...

Encountering animals in nature — whether on a hiking trail, at the beach or in a neighborhood park — can be one of the most ...

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Spotted hyenas thrive where humans tolerate predators, revealing how behavior shapes coexistence across shared landscapes.

Study reveals how urban wolf behavior adapts to human environments through flexible fear responses and rapid learning.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Identifying and prioritizing the many unknown viruses circulating in animals is an important part of modeling future pandemic risk ...