To a casual visitor, these can look like odd habits or animal “quirks.” But to animal welfare researchers and zookeepers, ...

Increasing urbanization has crowded out many wild animals. But raccoons appear to be thriving, living in cities across the country and even expanding their historical range. To investigate what ...

Pawlytics founder Lizz Whitacre has four dogs, three cats, one ferret and two horses. The serial entrepreneur joked that the office of her Lincoln-based tech startup could double as a petting zoo.

Why don’t humans ‘fit in’ with the animal world? Though irrefutably mammals, unlike other animals we often leave an ugly footprint wherever we go. We create machines — many of which seriously pollute ...

For years, a handful of local animal lovers have been dealing with the problem of stray and abandoned animals in Yakima County, paying out of their own pocket for spay and neuter operations and ...