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A monarch flies around flowers along the Hudson River in downtown Manhattan.
Six million antelope move across South Sudan in a spectacle larger than the Serengeti but threatened by war and poaching.
Using a novel chemical tracking method, University of Florida researchers discovered that bats following longer, more complex ...
Welcome to the first column of Birdbrained Science! In this biweekly column, I’ll be talking about a variety of scientific topics — bird-related, brain-related and otherwise.
Animals in any environment have many essentials for survival. Two are obvious: food and water. Many don’t consider other essentials that are very much like the needs humans have. Those include cover ...
Animal migration has fascinated humans for millennia. And for good reason: Some of the most astonishing feats of endurance are performed by long-distance migrants, such as the nine-day non-stop flight ...
An estimate that as many as 1.3 million wildebeest move across the Serengeti-Mara landscape each year has been cut down to ...
Manhattan: Re Cardinal Timothy Dolan’s recent op-ed “Physician assisted suicide is not a good answer” (April 7): First, it is medically assisted death for the dying. It is not suicide or the killing ...