Parrots Know Which Box Has the Food
Put two boxes in front of an African Grey parrot. The parrot knows one has a treat and the other doesn’t, but doesn’t know which is…
Put two boxes in front of an African Grey parrot. The parrot knows one has a treat and the other doesn’t, but doesn’t know which is…
Perhaps they considered themselves frequent flyers. At Pittsburgh International Airport, a swarm of honeybees settled on the engine of a Delta commuter plane. Because of the…
If you enjoy fine wine and tasty beer, give a nod to wasps – it wouldn’t be possible without them. Long before humankind learned how to…
Tens of millions of free-roaming dogs … millions of dog bites every year … 20,000 people dying from rabies each year (99 percent of them from…
It’s been something of a feud between cat people and bird people: the question of how much damage our cats are doing to the bird population.…
Shirley and Tom Schenk heard bears crying throughout the night near their home in Ruidoso, N.M. When they went out to see what was going on,…
“I get on my knees every day, and I’m saying an extra prayer right now,” Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack told reporters, adding that he’d be doing…
At the Olympics this weekend, everyone will be watching to see if the world’s fastest man, Usain Bolt of Jamaica, can beat his own record: 100…
It’s been one of the biggest dog rescues in history: 2,500 beagles who were destined for vivisection experiments are being rescued from the infamous Green Hill…
They survived that Fifth Great Extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. They even survived the Fourth (Permian) Extinction that wiped out 90…
Fed up with the silly rituals of the Skull & Bones at Yale? Had enough of the Ivy Club at Princeton and the pricey clothes and…
Russian mogul Dmitry Itskov thinks he can upload his brain to a holographic avatar that can support his entire consciousness – and in the next 33…
Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, is a parody of the kind of person who takes money from lobbyists in order to fight against animal protection. His big…