Animals & Nature

Panda death refers to the loss of individual giant pandas through natural causes, disease, accidents, or human-related threats, and it matters because each death affects small,...

No. Huntsman spiders do not eat possums. These spiders feed primarily on insects and other small invertebrates. While a very large huntsman could subdue a tiny, juvenile possum...

Red pandas are solitary, arboreal mammals native to the temperate forests of the Himalayas and southwestern China. They are skilled climbers but are not natural bipeds and have...

A picture of a black tiger circulates widely online, often presented as a rare glimpse of a melanistic big cat. True melanistic tigers are exceptionally rare in the wild and dif...

The aardwolf (Proteles cristata) is a nocturnal, termite-specializing hyena native to eastern and southern Africa. Often confused with other hyenas, it is smaller, lighter, and...

A baby whale is a young cetacean, the term used for any whale calf from birth through early development stages. Size at birth typically ranges from about one fourth to one third...

Monkey violence is a descriptive term used to document and discuss physical attacks, maiming, and lethal aggression among nonhuman primates, as well as the rare instances of dir...

Prideful animals often display confident, assertive behaviors that can seem arrogant to human observers. These displays are typically tied to social status, resource control, an...

Harambe was a male western lowland gorilla born at the Gladys Porter Zoo in Brownsville, Texas in 1994 and raised at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden from 1995 until his de...

A pet moose is a working ruminant, not a conventional companion animal. In practice, the term usually refers to a human-reared moose that lives primarily outdoors, often on larg...