While some captive birds have been reported to be able to imitate human-made sounds, such as human words and coughs, ...

"When a dragonfly hunts, it hovers perfectly still and positions itself between its prey and a shadow cast behind it by, say, ...

Without being able to get into the heads of animals, it’s hard to say for sure. But instances of pig painters, whale crooners ...

Birds without natural immunity that migrate or roost together in large flocks, such as geese, are most likely to die in large ...

In the case of critically endangered California condors, scientists organized a vaccination program -- including in San Diego ...

New research shows how physical changes in the skull affected the mechanics of the way birds move and use their beaks to eat and explore their habitats -- adaptations that helped them evolve into the ...

The radical otherness of birds is integral to their beauty and their value. They are always among us but never of us. They’re the other world-dominating animals that evolution has produced ...

A suspected mass poisoning has killed scores of cockatoos and corellas after volunteers found dozen of the birds dying at locations around Newcastle, NSW. Newcastle-based animal hospital Hamilton ...

It is not clear if the second New York City cat infected with avian flu also consumed tainted foods or if they had contracted it from an infected bird, but health officials confirmed it died from ...

Naturalist Jim McCormac said in a 2019 column in the Columbus Dispatch that he is regularly contacted by people surprised to see one or more of the giant birds in Ohio. They're more commonly found ...