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From rabbits to maggots, school pets are common but we need to think of them as partners, not resources
One year ago, the ‘Tiger King’ docuseries raised public concern about animal cruelty to new heights. But what’s happened to animals since?
Being aware of nature and its life-supporting functions helps our societies to operate more sustainably.
In several other parts of the world, people used the bones of animals that were important within their respective cultures to make tools.
All the ways plants, animals, insects and the bacteria around us can be beneficial to human health.
Animals that are traded as pets are more likely to be invasive species, including a relatively new pet: ants.
By measuring how and when elephant seals sleep, researchers were able to figure out how elephant seals change their risk-taking behavior as they gain weight.
This story is not graphic, but what happens to slaughter-bound horses is, and it’s time for change.
Reports of global biodiversity doom hide a more complex and encouraging picture. Conservation efforts can be targeted with more nuance species population data.
Dogs are more in tune with human social cues than cats.
A new study found naked mole-rats communicate with chirps unique to their colony.
Ever since the 2001 SARS outbreak and H5N1 avian flu in 2003, we’ve developed tools to monitor diseases that transmitted from animals to humans. But what does a large-scale roll-out entail?
Pets both helped and harmed mental health.
This is the first study to link human activity with a change in whale sharks’ life stages.
A toxin unique to spitting cobras means their venom causes more pain than other snakes.
New study sheds light on how the starfish evolved.
COVID-19 has been found in pets, zoo animals and in a wild mink in Utah. Monitoring wildlife for COVID-19 is important for animals and humans, both of whom face risks from a jumping virus.
From long walks to dangerous foods, you could be damaging the health of your puppy without realising.
New fossil detective work sheds light on the life of megalodon, the biggest predatory shark ever discovered.
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Principal Lecturer in Wildlife Conservation, Nottingham Trent University
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Professor, Management and Organizational Studies, Huron University College, Western University
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Associate Professor, School of Animal and Veterinary Science, University of Adelaide
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Senior Lecturer in Animal Science, Nottingham Trent University
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Professor of Wildlife Conservation, University of Salford
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Visiting Research Fellow, Animal Behaviour and Welfare, Nottingham Trent University
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Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Biology, Adjunct Associate Professor of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology
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Associate Professor Emerita of Comparative Literature, University of California, San Diego
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Professor in Ecology, Charles Sturt University
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Professor, Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Assistant Director of the University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge, University of Cambridge
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Former Foundation Professor of Animal Welfare, University of Queensland, Curtin University
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Professor in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, School of Life & Environmental Sciences, Deakin University
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Professor in Modern History, University of York
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Animal Geographer, Keele University
