Some remain in family groups for life. Many cetaceans have been violently captured from the wild, with no hope of ever being reunited with their families. Once in captivity, the animals are withheld ...

This story appears in the October 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. A naked mole rat. That was photographer Joel Sartore’s first model in 2006 when he began making studio portraits of ...

“There are more people gathered to watch than there are blue-throated macaws left in the wild,” Dr. Mark Penning, vice president of Animals, Science and Environment at Disney ...

How many wild pandas are out there? Researchers have been trying to count them since the 1970s, when it is thought there were roughly 2,500 animals. That dropped dramatically in the 1980s ...

An instant best seller, the book belongs to a booming subgenre of autobiography: memoirs about the surprising bonds between humans and wild animals. Books about writers’ dogs and cats have long ...

Another consideration is that our energy estimates for livestock substantially exceeded wild animals due to their large body size and high abundance. Yet how livestock shapes the landscape depends ...

Reproduction concerns not only the young and restless — Aging in the Wild takes a light-hearted look at the issue of sexuality and camaraderie in older animals. We illustrate the link between ...

Other animals in the UK that you know and love are ... in the hope of reintroducing them back to the wild. Wildcats hate bad weather, and are much less active in the rain. We can relate.