Fish in the wild can tell humans apart! A study found that seabream recognize individual divers, following those who feed them while ignoring others. For years, scientific divers at a Mediterranean re ...

Nick Paumgarten on saving a species. Plus: the fracturing of conservative Christians; a film-critic legend on the Hollywood ...

Most adult male baboons are aggressive and live apart from females, other than when mating. But not the Kinda baboon ...

Bird flu infects many species, including wild animals, according to the United Nations. Ducks, quail and at least one eagle ...

Maybe it's a life hack or a liability, or a little of both. A surprising result in a new MIT study may suggest that people and animals alike share an inherent propensity to keep updating their ...

Until the introduction of telephones, pigeons were used for communication commercially, and in war times, under the clever ...

In 1799, during his explorations along the Orinoco River, German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt “stayed with a local ...

If you’re walking around Hoboken this Valentine’s Day, it's likely you’ll run into a pigeon blocking the sidewalk. Before you ...

While there is a nonzero chance, it is highly unlikely that a pigeon you encounter will be infected with the virus and even less likely that a human will contract bird flu from it.

Researchers from the Cluster of Excellence Collective Behaviour introduce the method YOLO-Behaviour: a new computer vision framework to automatically identify animal behaviours from videos. The robust ...

Odisha’s carrier pigeon service still maintains a fleet of around 150 birds, though their purpose has grown increasingly ceremonial.

With the population pressure on land and the unmanageable byproducts of our economic growth, new conflicts emerge. How can we ...