Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A ritual dance honoring Yoruban ancestors is one of the countless examples of human culture. Jorge Fernández/LightRocket via Getty ...

Josephine Donovan argues we must get over ourselves, decenter anthropocentrism, recenter animals, establish a ...

A mule deer steps onto a trail in Yellowstone at 2 a.m., crosses quickly, and vanishes into timber. During the 2020 COVID shutdowns, that same crossing happened in broad daylight. The deer did not ...

When people disappeared from the landscape, as they did during the pandemic, wild animals changed how they used space and ...

In recent decades, scientists and public health experts have increasingly examined how human interactions with wildlife and ...

Some people are averse to their fellow human beings. It may sound strange, especially for those who are incredibly social, but a lot of individuals tend to distance themselves from others. And while ...

A new analysis of GPS tracking data from 37 animal species, paired with cellphone location data from across the United States ...

As human-caused sound gets louder around the world, some animals change their behavior and many creatures suffer health issues Olivia Ferrari | Correspondent Key takeaways: How creatures respond to ...

Of the 8.7 million species on Earth, why are human beings the only one that paints self-portraits, walks on the Moon and worships gods? For decades, many scholars have argued that the difference stems ...

A new study shows that wildlife reacts not only to roads and cities, but also to the daily presence of humans.

The persistent presence of humans and their infrastructure in U.S. national parks has yielded dramatic changes in the behaviors of large animals who live there, a new study has found. Even during the ...