Deep in the swamp forest of the Niger Delta lives a monkey that was unknown to science until 1993. Within two decades of its discovery, around 90% of its population had been wiped out.

This behaviour may shed light on one of the defining features of our own species: our extraordinary relationships with other ...

If a monkey climbs onto a deer and sprawls across its back, perhaps it is simply an odd, one-off encounter. Then another monkey carefully grooms a dog. Elsewhere, a group accepts a baby from another ...

A local animal rescue is asking for help identifying a man who tried dumping eight domestic ducklings at a pond on Wednesday ...

Years later, while studying wild black-and-white snub-nosed monkeys in the mountains of south-west China, I watched playful ...

The fact that monkeys can keep "pets" or even raise other species could hint at the evolutionary origins of empathy.

Rustic Acres Wildcat Rescue in Chepachet provides a home for four bobcats that cannot be returned to the wild. The sanctuary ...

More than 150 protected box turtles were illegally dumped in New Jersey, and officials are asking the public to help recover the remaining animals. — Cranford Fire Department More than 150 protected ...

The wedding between billionaire California businessman Stephen Cloobeck and the Penthouse Pet accused of stealing from rich sugar daddies has been called off — as shocking details of the model’s ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A review of over 300 cases of inter-species friendships indicates primates are also socially curious. While anthropologist and ...

Why do humans keep pets? A new international study suggests that some of the behavioral foundations of human-animal companionship may have much deeper evolutionary roots than previously thought.