PITTSFIELD — Ears strain instinctively, listening for hooves beating against dirt. There is no sound; no fragrance of grass intermingled with sweat, no prairie wind blowing, as light shimmers off the ...

Why bears know when it’s trash day, coyotes learned to look both ways before crossing the street, and raccoons can untie bungee cords. A radio-collared coyote crosses a railroad bridge in Chicago, ...

One of these scenes appears only 15 minutes into the series: a group of flamingos descend on a salt flat in Africa that has been hit by a sudden flood. They mate amid the rapidly evaporating lake, ...

"Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose." –Janis Joplin For many years I've been thinking about whether wild nonhuman animals (animals) are always happier than captive animals of their ...

'Animal Ethics in the Wild' by Catia Faria. Source: Cambridge University Press, with permission. As a long-time field researcher, I've seen my share of pain, suffering, and death in various wild ...