Certain animal species go to great lengths to care for their offspring, even risking exposure to predators to protect them.

There has been a number of incidents involving animal cruelty around the country, with the fatal stabbing of a dog by a vendor in Subic, Zambales, among the most recent. What should we do if we ...

The main cast of Animal Control are all returning for season 3, as Joel McHale, Michael Rowland, Vella Lovell, Ravi Patel, Grace Palmer and Gerry Dee were all mentioned in the official Animal Control ...

Research in animal models has made it possible to contain and treat many serious diseases and even eradicate some, such as smallpox and polio. Understanding how diseases arise at the molecular level, ...

Zambezi Elephants, Africa A young elephant nuzzles its mother during a visit to the drought-depleted Zambezi riverbed. (Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Down the Zambezi ...

Replacing animal tests does not mean putting human patients at risk. It also does not mean halting medical progress. Instead, replacing animals used in testing will improve the quality as well as the ...

Animal physiology is the scientific study of the life-supporting properties, functions and processes of animals or their parts. The discipline covers key homeostatic processes, such as the ...

Animal biotechnology is a branch of biotechnology in which molecular biology techniques are used to genetically engineer (i.e. modify the genome of) animals in order to improve their suitability ...

Rational argument about the right and wrong way to treat animals is made more difficult by the deep love that many of us feel for animals. For philosophers it raises fundamental questions about ...

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