STOCKHOLM (AP) — People around the world were stunned when Copenhagen Zoo killed a healthy 2-year-old giraffe named Marius, butchered its carcass in front of a crowd that included children and then ...

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Wild mammals on Earth are in big trouble. In the cold light of ecological arithmetic, they barely register anymore. Of all the mammalian biomass on the planet, just 4% is still wild. The rest — us and ...

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Alongside the occasional bison and elk, red deer are Europe's largest native wild animal. An international study led by wildlife ecologists from the University of Freiburg has now investigated the ...

Surekha Davies is a historian of science and the author of Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human. She is currently based in the Netherlands. It’s an enduring myth that the development ...

British dogs and cats are set to become the first animals in Europe to chow down on meat cultivated from chicken cells. By Amelia Nierenberg Reporting from London Britain has approved the sale of ...

I'm very interested in human-animal relationships (anthrozoology) and always want to learn more about the history and roots of these sorts of relationships. 1 That's the very reason I was so glad to ...

Exploring Europe's roadmap options for a new approach to animal testing methodologies, and how collaboration will shape the future of animal-free regulatory science The European Commission is set to ...

In 2012, a young wolf named Slavc loped into the Lessini Mountains of Italy, completing a 1,200-mile route from Slovenia, where he was born. This was a dangerous place for a wolf to settle. The region ...

A new study shows that human hunting and land use have a decisive influence on red deer density in Europe. Red deer density is only reduced when wolves, lynx and bears co-occur at the same site. A new ...