"This is not a petting zoo." Bystander shares video of reckless tourists approaching wild animal: 'Stay home if you can't respect nature' first appeared on The Cool Down.

One day in June 2015, primatologist Aaron Sandel was watching chimpanzees in Uganda’s Kibale National Park when he saw something that did not make sense. A small party of chimps from the Ngogo ...

Family trips to national parks are a perfect way to connect with nature and teach children respect for the environment. But getting too close to wildlife could cause a family trip ...

The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Resources ultimately plans to move the car-chasing bird to a safe location.

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When most people imagine territorial aggression in the animal kingdom, they picture lions roaring across the savanna or wolves howling at pack borders. Fierce, obvious, and easy to respect. The ...

A camera trap placed on a forest tree trunk captures two European stag beetles (Lucanus cervus) encountering each other on ...

Deep in the rain‑drenched forests of southern India, scientists climbed into old tree holes expecting to find tiny freshwater ...

It has the body of a mouse, the snout of an anteater, and the poor vision of a mole, and it’s creating tunnels and holes in ...