A New Study Details How Cats Almost Always Land on Their Feet
It’s well established that when cats fall, they’re able to land perfectly most of the time, nimbly maneuvering…
Raccoons Keep Picking Locks Even After They’ve Eaten the Reward. Scientists Say They Do It to “Forage Information”
A raccoon and puzzlebox from the experiment. Credit: Hannah Griebling The marshmallow was gone, but the trash pandas…
Monitoring Massachusetts’s growing black bear population
Deep in the woods of western Massachusetts, wildlife biologist Dave Wattles is living out a lifelong dream —…
Wild chimpanzees in Uganda are drinking the equivalent of a beer a day
One of the boozy chimps. Credit: Aleksey Maro/UC Berkeley Since you can’t exactly breathalyze a wild ape, Aleksey…
Punch the Monkey Hits Major Milestone—but What Does it Really Mean?
Punch, the 7-month-old Japanese macaque who captured millions of hearts after bonding with a stuffed orangutan, has reached…
Punch the Monkey Makes New Friend at the Zoo—Internet Can’t Handle It
Punch the baby macaque, whose attachment to a stuffed orangutan first captured hearts online, is once again going…
How Fearsome Wolves Became Loyal Dogs — and Changed Human History Forever
The dog diverged from a now-extinct population of wolves 27,000–40,000 years ago, before or during the Last Glacial…
Cows have BFF to whales can drown: 11 super weird animal facts you probably didn’t know
Nature doesn’t try to impress us. It just exists, quietly doing strange, brilliant things whether we’re watching or…
Driver Swerves To Miss Raccoon on Road at 2am—Unprepared for What Really Is
While driving back home from their girlfriend’s, a Reddit user almost ran over something on a two-lane road.…
Man Watched Moose for Years—Then Gets Doorbell Cam Alert of a Lifetime
A Utah resident was used to regular visits from a moose outside his home, but then something truly…
‘Imagine how lost the poor thing is’
Japanese commuters were surprised to see a wild animal roaming a subway station. Scarlett (@scarlettcb_07) captured a video…
Some Naked Mole-Rats Are Just Born to Clean Toilets, Study Suggests
Perhaps you live in the kind of household that likes to divide up the chores. You take the…