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Katherine Moseby and Leanne Van der Wyde releasing a bettong after measuring its physical traits.

Release the cats: Training native species to fear invasive predators

Hannah Thomasy 13 May 2022

As tiger numbers in Nepal and India grow, their freedom to roam shrinks

Abhaya Raj Joshi and Sahana Ghosh 13 May 2022
Humpback whales have made a remarkable recovery from the days when they were targeted by whaling vessels, but global whale populations are starting to struggle as food resources shift and deteriorate.

What’s popping? Humpbacks off South Africa, new acoustic study finds

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 9 May 2022

Human disturbance is pitting wolverines against an unlikely competitor: Coyotes

Grace Hansen 9 May 2022

Why are Florida manatees showing up in Cuba and Mexico?

Maxwell Radwin 29 Apr 2022
A Western chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus).

Côte d’Ivoire’s chimp habitats are shrinking, but there’s hope in their numbers

Manon Verchot 25 Apr 2022
Leatherback turtle nesting on a beach

‘Resilient’ leatherback turtles can survive fishing rope entanglements. Mostly

Kala Hunter 5 Apr 2022

The ocean is a cacophony of fish talk, study shows. We just can’t hear it

Rachel Teng Ruiqi 30 Mar 2022

‘Studying a ghost’: In Cape Town, urban caracals give researchers lots to ponder

Grace Hansen 21 Mar 2022

Researchers puzzle over sea-crossing migration of crimson rose butterflies

Malaka Rodrigo 1 Mar 2022

Marauding monkeys on an Indonesian island point to environmental pressures

Yogi Eka Sahputra 23 Feb 2022

The chimp doctor will see you now: Medicating apes boost the case for conservation

Manon Verchot 16 Feb 2022

In prioritizing conservation, animal culture should be a factor, study says

John Cannon 1 Feb 2022

More trees means healthier bees, new study on air pollution shows

Luís Patriani 3 Jan 2022

How wildlife crossings in Canada are inspiring safer roads for global species

Shannon Kelleher 17 Dec 2021
Large tiger sharks overwinter in the Bahamas and migrate thousands of kilometers into open ocean in the summer, but they remain in the Atlantic. Photo credit: © Christopher Vaughan-Jones

Geneticists have identified new groups of tiger sharks to protect

Graycen Wheeler 30 Nov 2021
A white-necked jacobin with the brightly colored feather patterns typical of males. Photo by Irene Mendez Cruz.

Some hummingbird females display male coloring to avoid being harassed

Megan Kalomiris 23 Nov 2021
A black bear family cautiously attempting a road crossing. Photo by Bridget Donaldson, Virginia Transportation Research Council.

Carnivores avoid rush hour by taking to roads at night

Elyse DeFranco 17 Nov 2021
Worker bees cluster on the honeycomb to eat and deposit nectar. Photo by Jude Coleman

Honey bees find food more easily in cities, thanks to abundant urban gardens

Jude Coleman 15 Nov 2021

Hungry like the maned wolf pup: Clips give rare glimpse of elusive canine

Mongabay.com 26 Oct 2021
Chimpanzee

Scientists look to chimps’ past to gauge their future under climate change

Carolyn Cowan 17 Sep 2021

Studies debunk ‘nature is healing’ narrative from 2020 lockdowns

Jansen Baier 1 Sep 2021

For male chimps looking to mate, an entourage is the way to go, study finds

Ed Holt 30 Aug 2021

Loss of forests turns up the heat, literally, on giant anteaters

Romi Castagnino 26 Aug 2021

For sea snakes, underwater sex is a washout more often than not

Jansen Baier 5 Aug 2021

For manta rays, parasitic hitchhikers can be a pain in the rear, study finds

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 20 Jul 2021

As humans close in on their habitat, crocodiles in the Philippines snap back

Chelsy Mae Abdulmuti 20 Jul 2021

Did you know that spix’s night monkeys only weigh around 1 kg?

Romi Castagnino 19 May 2021

With baby animals, patience pays: Photographer describes new book of intimate portraits

Erik Hoffner 3 May 2021

Female putty-nosed monkeys get their males to run defense against predators

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 29 Apr 2021

From penguins to sharks to whales, swimming in circles is a surprisingly common trait

Basten Gokkon 26 Mar 2021

Unrelated adoptions by bonobos may point to altruistic traits, study says

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 23 Mar 2021

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