Animal intelligence can be surprisingly difficult to measure. We often judge other species by our own standards, but ...

As a researcher, I still remember the discomfort I felt every time I had to sacrifice laboratory animals for an experiment.

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This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Guest Commentary written by Dr. Emily Talkington is a wildlife veterinarian specializing in primates I’m a wildlife ...

Advances in organ and computer models are raising the prospect that some animal experiments could be eliminated. But there are still huge hurdles to overcome ...

Around 348 B.C., Aristotle took a two-year trip to the eastern Aegean island of Lesbos to study animals in a lagoon. Along with observing the creatures in their natural habitat and surmising, among ...

I’m a wildlife veterinarian specializing in monkeys, so I know there are ways to prevent the recent incident in Mississippi where eight monkeys escaped during transport from a research lab in New ...