Most animals have no hardwired evolutionary reason to care about human language. But dogs, who've lived alongside humans for at least 14,000 years , have a special motivation to listen to their ...

WWF works to sustain the natural world for the benefit of people and wildlife, collaborating with partners from local to ...

People who feel lonely or don't have many friends are more likely to think animals have human-like emotions and personalities ...

Wherever it is, it must be the place where synurbization—the process of wildlife adapting to urban environments—originated.. Animals and humans have always coexisted. Before cities, nomadic ...

Evolutionary biologist Nathan H. Lents details how animal relationships can offer perspective on sexual diversity, social monogamy and gender identity—for humans.

This meant that the animals were used to having humans around them, but Berthet's group, like the local scientists, avoided interfering with their behavior and did their best to avoid any disturbance.

On the one hand, human affection for animals, which often manifests in their anthropomorphization, is well documented. As early as 1874, The Atlantic published an article asking whether they have ...

Most animals have no hardwired evolutionary reason to care about human language. But dogs, who've lived alongside humans for at least 14,000 years , have a special motivation to listen to their ...