For centuries, animals have been worshipped by cultures around the world. Some, such as deer, are even considered sacred in ...

While bear sightings and attacks have surged in northern Japan, wild deer are also causing a record number of traffic ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. For a thousand years the wild sika deer of Nara ...

In a recent study published in PLoS ONE, researchers investigated the impact of the anthropause, or stagnation, in human activity due to a decrease in tourist visits to Nara Park, central Japan, ...

In 2014 reports of an Antarctic fur seal coercing king penguins into sexual relations made headlines worldwide, as it was the first time that such behavior between unrelated species was documented.

A research group led by Professor Wei Li from the Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Toho University, Japan, in collaboration with Dalian Medical University, China, and ...

After spending a few months observing macaque monkeys living in a Japanese forest, a group of scientists found a pattern of behavior they described as both "unusual" and "intriguing." Adolescent ...