Long-tailed macaques given short videos were glued to scenes of fighting—especially when the combatants were monkeys they ...

Learn more about the tendency to anthropomorphize animals, which is a more common tendency in some people than in others, in part thanks to these potentially conservation-aiding traits.

When hunter-gatherers began living close to animals, the pathogens that cause the plague and leprosy got closer too.

Earth has its own subtle way of warning its inhabitants of impending disasters. But are we paying attention? While animals ...

Animals are still getting COVID-19, but they seem to be more protected against Omicron than humans are. Researchers have some ideas why.

If H5N1 bird flu changes at the right place at the right time, suddenly the animal pandemic could become a major problem for people, too.

Animals and humans have always coexisted. ... On the other hand, power-station-seeking dolphins in Japan were exposed to radioactivity following the 2011 Fukushima nuclear power plant emergency.

In the most human-dominated habitats, the animals were also 36 percent closer to roads during the shutdowns, they found. Image. Mountain goats roaming the empty streets of Llandudno, ...

The remaining 21% involved humans. Of those, 64% were human-to-animal transmissions, known as anthroponosis, and 36% were animal-to-human transmissions, called zoonosis.

This meant that the animals were used to having humans around them, but Berthet's group, like the local scientists, avoided interfering with their behavior and did their best to avoid any disturbance.

In 1989, Steven Zak wrote about animal-rights activists who were trying to make people contend with the question of “whether animals, who are known to have feelings and psychological lives ...