HONG KONG -- The Chinese Year of the Ox began Friday and in the shadow of Hong Kong's futuristic urban skyline, wild bovines are getting some love. Cattle and water buffalo embody hard work and ...

HONG KONG (AP) — The Chinese Year of the Ox begins Friday, and in the shadow of Hong Kong’s futuristic urban skyline, wild bovines are getting some love. Cattle and water buffalo embody hard work and ...

When large and warty cane toads were first brought to Australia nearly 100 years ago, they had a simple mission: to gobble up beetles and other pests in the sugarcane fields. Today, though, the toads ...

Twenty years after its discovery in the forested mountains of Vietnam, local authorities here have agreed to establish two new nature reserves to protect the saola, a primitive member of the Bovidae ...

Have you ever seen a dog or cat nibble grass from the lawn? Many household pets, as well as birds, bees, lizards, elephants, and chimpanzees in the wild, sometimes eat things that cure their illnesses ...

When pandemic-related shutdowns kept people at home in early 2020, wild mammals roamed more freely across the landscape, according to a large global study that was published in Science on Thursday.

Researchers at the University of California San Diego say feeding wild elephants can lead to serious harm. File Photo by Bill Greenblatt/UPI Feeding wild elephants might seem kind or exciting, but a ...

It goes without saying that it’s a terrible idea to enter a wild animal’s enclosure. But a few days ago, in the quest for a selfie, a woman climbed over the concrete barrier of a jaguar enclosure at ...