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 ...

Dr. Rustin Moore argues that human-animal interactions are more than feel-good phenomena and that these connections enhance health, resilience, and well-being, often in unnoticed ways.

Polar bear encounters with humans are a regular concern for scientists and communities near polar bear habitats, but new research is showing the bears' reasons for coming in contact with humans might ...

Humans are often described as “super-predators,” but wildlife may not respond to us as uniformly as once thought. People have ...

Polar bears depend on frozen ocean surfaces more than any other land predator. The ice functions as a platform where they ...

Many aspects of animals that people find beautiful evolved to be attractive to the animals themselves. A new study hints at a common aspect of perception that dates back hundreds of millions of years.

Mountain lions are perhaps nature's most skilled escape artists when it comes to avoiding human contact. Research from the Wildlife Conservation Society shows these big cats can detect human presence ...