2+ week, 6+ day ago   (915+ words) In between morning feedings, the gibbons begin to sing — loudly. Ranging from the sound of emergency sirens and birds screeching to low grunts and guttural hoots, their vocalizations reverberate from a sanctuary in the hot, dry hills of the Santa…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (337+ words) An otter in New York. It sounds like the title of a direct-to-VHS children’s movie starring Jason Alexander as both the voice of the otter and his human nemesis. Seeing an otter in the Bronx River doesn’t sound like a…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (732+ words) On the heels of the death of his longtime mate Jackie, bald eagle Shadow has been perching, singing and lounging at his Big Bear nest with a new companion. It’s all being captured on a world-famous livestream, spurring mixed reactions…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (1807+ words) They once had run free through the desert mountains of the West, a multicolored band of 68 wild mustangs that had never been saddled or corralled. Then the federal government rounded them up with helicopters, as it has with tens of…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (548+ words) Ishe and Dembe, two young eastern chimpanzees, were leaping from branch to branch in the dense jungle canopy of a reserve in Uganda when the chimps surprised watching researchers. The pair approached a nearby red-tailed monkey, but not with aggression,…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (362+ words) Dolphins are the kind of smart that’s a little unsettling for an animal. The more we observe their behavior, the freakier they become. As researchers report in Marine Mammal Science, dolphins off Queensland, Australia, have been caught on camera using…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (613+ words) Bert Gerber was woken up in the middle of the night by a loud and unfamiliar honking noise. He walked outside in his flip-flops to find his family’s barn — where about 60 turkeys and chickens slept — on fire. Gerber grabbed a…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (614+ words) Bert Gerber was woken up in the middle of the night by a loud and unfamiliar honking noise. He walked outside in his flip-flops to find his family’s barn — where about 60 turkeys and chickens slept — on fire. Gerber grabbed a…...

4+ week, 21+ hour ago   (688+ words) In my childhood, the concept of “endangered species” evoked beautiful, threatened creatures in desperate need of saving — your pandas, whales or all-American bald eagles. Today, it’s become synonymous with development projects held up over some obscure frog no one cares…...