A Bright Side feature compiling 17 stories of unlikely animal friendships highlights bonds that transcend species, from cats adopting puppies to giraffes protecting zebras. These heartwarming accounts ...

Rebellious youngster Mabel Tanaka grew up with her nature-loving Grandma (Karen Huie) in the city of Beaverton. The two of them sat daily on a rock beside a big pond in a peaceful forest glade which ...

While an increasingly small number of people, especially academic researchers, try to argue that nonhuman animals (animals) don’t really make friends, most people, including both researchers and ...

Hikikomori (Japanese for “to seclude” and “to pull back”) is a term used to describe a portion of the population in Japan since the 1970s that has withdrawn socially from the outside world. Some ...

In the movie Hoppers, scientists “hop” human consciousness into animal-like robots to talk to other species. We asked the experts their thoughts on how conceivable the plot is. Some scientists believe ...