A new study comparing wild and zoo-housed Sumatran orangutans reveals that life in a zoo significantly alters how orangutans ...

Columbia researchers who were using mouse models to better understand the role of serotonin in depression got results that ...

Animals like dogs are well-equipped for high-exertion, sensory-intensive tasks such as sniffing explosives or locating ...

After Ringling Bros. ended its 145-year-long tradition of forcing elephants to perform in 2016, many assumed that the ...

More curious: Orangutans in zoos explore more frequently and in more varied ways than those in the wild, including greater ...

The study compared exploratory object manipulation (EOM) behaviors in wild and zoo-housed ... suggesting an innate developmental sequence. However, zoo orangutans continued to explore into ...

The study compared exploratory object manipulation (EOM) behaviors in wild and zoo-housed ... suggesting an innate developmental sequence. However, zoo orangutans continued to explore into ...

Dogs, cows, elephants, cats, and even toads exhibit unusual behaviors prior to seismic events ... the idea that animals possess an innate ability to sense shifts in the Earth’s vibrations ...