Animals in children's stories are often depicted as living in neat mom, dad and children family units. Examples include Fantastic Mr. Fox, 101 Dalmatians and, more recently, Peppa Pig and Bluey. But, ...

My closest brush with motherhood was an intense 24 hours fostering an orphaned baby owl monkey in the Peruvian Amazon in 2009. According to Charles Darwin, my maternal drive should have transformed me ...

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Want to learn the latest updates about baby animals at Disney’s Animal Kingdom? We’re sharing all the latest baby animal updates from Walt Disney World! Disney’s Animal Kingdom is an incredible place ...

Judith Lock does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

Frans de Waal, a primatologist and emeritus professor at Emory University, is the author of Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist Why treat fatherhood as a miracle? This was my ...

Walt Disney World is saying "jambo" to its "newest addition to the savanna," at Disney's Animal Kingdom theme park, Tucker. The baby boy giraffe was recently born to mother Mara, a Masai giraffe, and ...

Hunting is considered critical to human evolution by many researchers who believe that several characteristics that distinguish humans from our closest ...

Compared with the rest of the animal kingdom, mammals have the biggest brains and produce some of the smallest litters of offspring. A newly described fossil of an extinct mammal relative -- and her ...

Across the planet, animals are increasingly suffering from chronic illnesses once seen only in humans. Cats, dogs, cows, and ...