There are few things more joyful, if occasionally nerve-wracking, than having a pet in your home. And plenty of people agree.

Feeding wild animals might seem like a harmless act of kindness, but it often carries serious and unintended consequences.

Researchers from the University of Cape Town (UCT), working with international collaborators, have shown that people in ...

City-dwelling raccoons are physically changing as they adapt to human environments. They are, however, still wild animals.

Humans have built lucrative industries out of safari trips: candid on-the-ground looks at wild animals in their natural habitats. But what about the other way around? This Instagram video shows the ...

When a wild orangutan in Sumatra recently suffered a facial wound, apparently after fighting with another male, he did something that caught the attention of the scientists observing him. The animal ...

When Walton Ford saw the 1933 film “King Kong,” he was entranced by the portrayal of this animal caught in the world of humans and how the movie showed the “cultural fear of all things wild.” Later, ...