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When the state’s wildlife department flung the first handful of lettuce to a starving manatee in the Indian River a year ago, it was an act of desperation driven by a catastrophic die-off and violating an environmental golden rule that animal behavior should not be messed with that way.

A Southern California photographer has captured extraordinary footage revealing how transient orcas stun their prey before participating in a group feast.

Declared extinct on the Australian mainland 50 years ago, eastern quolls are making a comeback thanks to an ongoing rewilding program.

A leopard that attacked 15 people in India was captured in video displaying its aggressive behavior by attacking a van.

PHILADELPHIA — The honeybees looked perfectly healthy, buzzing about their boxy wooden hive on a warm autumn day in central Pennsylvania.

Do live-born lizards have belly buttons, and do live-born reptiles have an umbilical cord? – Gaelle, aged 12, Bristol, UK

KAILUA-KONA, Hawaii — Sandwiched here between the Pacific Ocean and Kona Airport — atop a dusty volcanic desert — dozens of 50-gallon water tanks gurgle and bubble away; each home to a solitary, wild-caught octopus and a couple of floating, plastic bath toys.

Capacity to have a ‘self-concept’ of themselves as ‘individuals’ may be an important step in penguins’ evolution, study says

NEW research and a five-year study of red squirrel behaviour indicate that conservation efforts ­targeting one of Scotland’s most-loved species…