Animal welfare legislation around the world is complex. In a lot of countries, exotic cafes would fall under the same license ...

This is the fourth part of Mongabay’s series on the expanding wolf population in California. Read Part 1,  Part 2 and Part 3.

When danger approaches, many creatures seem to follow the ancient proverb that “the enemy of my enemy is my friend.” ...

Most pet dogs carry a little wolf inside them; tiny snippets of wolf DNA that slipped into dog genomes after domestication. A ...

Common purebred dogs that find themselves in shelters include huskies, German shepherds and golden retrievers.

Popular genetics tests can’t tell you much about your dog’s personality, according to a recent study. A team of geneticists ...

Directed by Dea Kulumbegashvili. Cerebral, forbidding Georgian film about an obstetrician who, after facilitating abortions, ...

By Ben OlsonReader Staff For many, the holiday season can be a time of anxiety due to a lack of creativity when it comes to ...

Sacramento Zoo welcomes its first okapi calf, marking conservation success. A capybara also welcomed five new pups.

The capybara community at the Cape May County Zoo expanded a bit recent as, zoo officials announced on Wednesday that Marigold, which they note is a beloved capybara at the zoo, gave birth to five ...

On November 15, 2025, in Mar del Plata, Argentina, @camilaa.ibarra shared a video capturing a funny interaction between a pet dachshund named Perro salchicha and a capybara. In the video, Perro ...

FOR THE most part, rodents make people shriek in disgust. But the largest rodent of all, strangely, does not. The capybara, a hirsute native of South America, typically provokes squeals of delight. It ...