Watching attractive males strut their stuff makes female birds more fertile and leads to healthier chicks, a new study suggests.
The finding could help improve breeding programs for endangered or threatened birds, because it highlights the importance of mating displays, scientists say.
French researchers studied the mating success of the Houbara bustard, a sandy-colored desert bird [...]
Going up? During a 2008 expedition, a great white shark swims into position for its first elevator ride in a scene from the new National Geographic Channel documentary series Expedition Great White, premiering Sunday at 9 p.m. ET/PT.
Able to lift 37 tons, the hydraulic lift had never been used on a marine animal before [...]
The elegant yet fragile brown pelican—removed from the U.S. endangered species list just last year—is the animal that conservationists fear may come to symbolize the damage to wildlife as the Gulf of Mexico oil spill advances over its marshy habitat.
Photograph by: William Colgin, the Sun Herald via AP
In nesting season, the birds lie in [...]
Charles the cat is a bit of a wanderer, it would seem. Or did he have help traveling the 1,300 miles from Albuquerque for Chicago? No person knows, and Charles isn’t talking (at least in language that humans can understand).
What is known is that the tabby somehow ended up in Chicago, even though his [...]
