The National Zoo in Washington D.C., is bringing calls of the wild to cell phones by selling animal ring tones. In addition to the Sumatran tiger, incoming calls can sound like an anteater, North ...

Watching wild animals can be exhilarating, educational and a richly rewarding experience. But spotting wildlife and keeping them in sight is often challenging. So wildlife researchers are increasingly ...

There’s something profoundly different about watching an elephant amble across the savanna versus seeing one pace behind ...

Visitors can hear Björk's immersive, otherworldly soundscape, Nature Manifesto, over the next few weeks as they climb the long, glass escalator that hugs the side of Centre Pompidou in Paris, France.

Six photographers journey around the world in search of animal encounters. An encounter with an animal is both extremely simple (“I am petting a cat”) and also miraculously profound (“I exist”). To ...

WASHINGTON — African elephants call each other and respond to individual names — something that few wild animals do, according to new research published Monday. The names are one part of elephants’ ...

At Denver's main animal shelter, roughly 300 animals hang out, hoping to get adopted. Entering one room, you’ll find Leilani, a boxer, Milk Dud, a pit bull and at the end of a row of enclosures, a ...

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