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If Congress didn’t believe habitat destruction and degradation constitute ‘harm’ under the statute, why would it require permits and plans to offset habitat loss?
Tamarins and squirrel monkeys have babies with unspeakably large heads compared to their mother’s birth canal.
Understanding how female baboons benefit from social bonds helps humans understand their own origins.
Translocation intends to minimize the impacts of development. Research shows that we are moving millions of animals and have no idea what happens to them next.
Why pigeons deserve more respect.
Some bird keepers have tried to drug their animals to stop them engaging in solo sex.
Well, someone has to keep the larvae fed.
When honey bees get sick, their beekeepers turn to the nation’s premier bee research and disease diagnosis lab for help. That crucial resource is now disappearing.
The female animals that go it alone.
When it comes to evolution, a few million years can really matter.
How animals respond to death.
Who makes the best case?
Birds have dialects too.
And what it reveals about local ecosystems.
An original new study on pet ownership assesses how attached people are to their cats and dogs in order to understand the emotional connection and the associated health benefits at all ages.
Do the birds singing in your garden or local park remind you of a musician?
From violence to rescue, settler practices involving donkeys are increasingly entangled with Palestinian dispossession.
Could new populations of seals and porpoises attract the descendants of some of the large shark species that were thriving in this region 4-5 million years ago?
Chernobyl’s exclusion zone has become one of Europe’s biggest nature reserves.
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Principal Lecturer in Wildlife Conservation, Nottingham Trent University
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Professor, Management and Organizational Studies, Huron University College and Coordinator of Animal Ethics and Sustainability Leadership, Western University
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Associate Professor, School of Animal and Veterinary Science, Adelaide University
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Lecturer in Animal Behaviour and Welfare, School of Psychology, Queen's University Belfast
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Professor of Zoo Animal Welfare & Legislation, Nottingham Trent University
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