When it comes to affectionate and friendly animals, most people opt for cats or dogs, but there are others who take a more interesting route, choosing rodents, birds, reptiles, or fish. Signs that a ...

Everyone who's ever owned a pet has at least one story (usually many, actually) of an animal that seems just as emotional as any human. Take Michiyo Takemoto of Tokyo, who swears she can tell whether ...

It’s a running joke among pet parents that cats don’t care when you come home. Unlike dogs, who wag, jump, and spin in circles, cats supposedly stay aloof, lounging in their favorite spot until food ...

These emotional reunions prove love never fades between animals and their humans.

I've followed Dr. Clive Phillips' wide-ranging career and his eclectic transdisciplinary views of animal welfare and animal-human relationships. Clive was Australia's first professor of animal welfare ...

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 ...

Howling is loudest when a close companion is taken away, study shows. Sept. 1, 2013— -- The most ferocious predator in the forest, despised by cattle ranchers and feared by humans and nearly ...