In the movie Hoppers, scientists “hop” human consciousness into animal-like robots to talk to other species. We asked the ...

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 ...

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Apennine brown bears have been living alongside humans in central Italy since at least the era of the Roman Empire. This prolonged proximity to people seems to have affected the isolated creatures’ ...

As freshmen in veterinary school, we were taught our brains were hard-wired, the window for change essentially closed many years beforehand. In spite of countless days spent scribbling notes in ...

It was encouraging to read about our legislators' attendance at the Third Annual Animal Advocacy Day ("Legislators push a pet cause at advocacy day," June 5), but I wonder whether the same concern ...

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