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It didn’t take more than a few days for Peter Cook, a marine mammal sciences professor at the New College of Florida, to train Ronan to bop her head to music. Using fish as a reward, he taught her the ...

Wildlife officials are keeping a close eye on the spread of avian influenza after nearly 300 birds were found dead along the North Carolina coast earlier this year — most of them ...

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The Trump administration is eroding national pandemic flu defenses as it guts health agencies, cuts research and health ...

A new study shows that one group of Galápagos yellow warblers responds to intruders more aggressively than others. It adds ...

UMass Amherst scientists reveal how pitch and volume interact in birdsong, offering new insights into bird communication and ...

In humans, it's very common for the traditional family structure of two parents raising children to change abruptly. Usually, ...

In an impressive feat of rapid urban adaptation, sulphur-crested cockatoos have worked out how to use their feet and their ...

In suburban Sydney, sulphur-crested cockatoos (Cacatua galerita) previously figured out how to break into garbage bins and ...