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The human sensory experience is limited. Journey into the world that animals know

In his new book, An Immense World, science writer Ed Yong explores the diversity of perception in the animal world — including echolocation, magnetic fields and ultraviolet vision.

Animal magic: why intelligence isn’t just for humans

Meet the footballing bees, optimistic pigs and alien-like octopuses that are shaking up how we think about minds

How Animals Perceive the World

Every creature lives within its own sensory bubble, but only humans have the capacity to appreciate the experiences of other species. What we’ve learned is astounding.

The Incredible Journey of Three African Wild Dogs

Three sisters braved lions, crocodiles, poachers, raging rivers and other dangers on a 1,300-mile transnational effort to forge a new dynasty.

[Miscellany] The Crow Whisperer, By Lauren Markham | Harper's Magazine

What happens when we talk to animals?

Inside the experimental world of animal infrastructure

Wildlife crossings cut down on roadkill. But are they really a boon for conservation?

The Strange and Secret Ways That Animals Perceive the World

Nonhuman creatures have senses that we’re just beginning to fathom. What would they tell us if we could only understand them?

The True Story Of A Man-Eating Tiger's 'Vengeance'

In December 1997, a tiger prowled the outskirts of a small town in Russia's Far East. In his book The Tiger, John Vaillant re-creates the events of that terrifying winter in an environment where man and tiger live side-by-side.

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The Pigeon Puzzle: How Do They Figure Out Their Impossibly Long Routes Home? | The Walrus

You might consider them flying rats, but their odysseys stump scientists

Are We on the Verge of Chatting with Whales? | Hakai Magazine

An ambitious project is attempting to interpret sperm whale clicks with artificial intelligence, then talk back to them.

Who Killed Cachou the Bear? Murder Mystery in Spain Rattles Conservationists

Conservationists saw the 6-year-old brown bear as a symbol of hope. Villagers saw him as a menace. Then he turned up dead.

The Gull Next Door | Hakai Magazine

Your obnoxious neighbor or just a misunderstood, displaced seabird?

The Elemental Strangeness of Foxes

Zito Madu in pursuit of London’s wildlife.

The Elephant Ethogram

Introduces the elephant ethogram: A Library of African Elephant Behavior

The First 'Google Translate' For Elephants Debuts

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Scientific American: Elephants possess an incredibly rich repertoire of communication techniques, including hundreds of calls and gestures that convey specific meanings and can change depending on the context. Different elephant…

The elephant vanishes: how a circus family went on the run

The long read: Dumba has spent her life performing in circuses around Europe, but in recent years animal rights activists have been campaigning to rescue her. When it looked like they might succeed, Dumba and her owners disappeared

Artificial Intelligence Develops an Ear for Birdsong - Scientific American

Machine-learning algorithms can quickly process thousands of hours of natural soundscapes

Persuading the Body to Regenerate Its Limbs

Deer can regrow their antlers, and humans can replace their liver. What else might be possible?

The Story of One Whale Who Tried to Bridge the Linguistic Divide Between An

While captive in a Navy program, a beluga whale named Noc began to mimic human speech. What was behind his attempt to talk to us?

The Challenges of Animal Translation

Artificial intelligence may help us decode animalese. But how much will we really be able to understand?

Hathi

Millions suffered through terror and upheaval in the turbulent years following the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. One of them was a baby elephant from India — A new story from India to the world, each week on FiftyTwo.in

The guards caring for Chernobyl's abandoned dogs - BBC Future

The descendants of pets abandoned by those fleeing the Chernobyl disaster are now striking up a curious relationship with humans charged with guarding the contaminated area.

Tardigrades: Nature's Great Survivors

The microscopic animals can withstand extreme conditions that would kill humans, and may one day help in the development of Covid vaccines. How do they do it?

The Great Cottonmouth-Catching Get-Rich-Quick Scheme of 1956

As a reptile-obsessed teen, I ran away to hunt lizards in the Everglades, then hatched a plan to milk venom from deadly snakes. It went even more comically wrong than you're thinking.

Why Animals Don’t Get Lost

Birds do it. Bees do it. Learning about the astounding navigational feats of wild creatures can teach us a lot about where we’re going.

The Wolf That Discovered California

Nearly a century after the last wolf was eradicated in the state, a lone female arrived and established a pack. Not everyone is cheering

Octopuses Find New Hunting Buddies

Animals are teaming up to adapt to a changing world.

The Kenyan Maasai Who Once Hunted Lions Are Now Their Saviors

A decade ago, scientists worried the lion could go extinct in Kenya by 2020. But today the area’s lion population is thriving thanks to an extraordinary group.

Want to Get Out Alive? Follow the Ants - Issue 95: Escape

Ants show that emergency exits can work better when they’re obstructed.

Keeping Watch Over Seabirds at the World’s Edge | Hakai Magazine

In Alaska, one of the longest-running and most comprehensive seabird monitoring projects is equal parts tedium, adventure, truth, and beauty.

The Last Two Northern White Rhinos On Earth - The New York Times

What will we lose when Najin and Fatu die?

The Squid Hunter | The New Yorker

The giant squid has taken on a near-mythical status for generations of sailors, explorers, and writers. How could something so big remain unseen—or be less understood than dinosaurs?

Herschel, the Very Hungry Sea Lion | Hakai Magazine

It’s dangerous to blame the decline of one species on a single predator. We humans like to do it anyway.

Murmuration

A chance encounter and shared moment with one of natures greatest and most fleeting phenomena. Facebook: Islands And Rivers For licensing information contact Dale Dobson - dale@iconiclinx.com

Lucky Glider Rescue & Sanctuary | Clifton Animal Rescue

Overcoming Bias : How Bees Argue

The book Honeybee Democracy, published in 2010, has been sitting on my shelf for many years.

What Ecstasy Does to Octopuses

Despite their wacky brains, these intelligent animals seem to respond to the drug in a very similar way to humans.

The Hummingbird Whisperer

They’re tiny and they hover, and they’re one of only three groups of birds that are vocal learners. They sing with their mouths andtheir feathers. No wonder UC Riverside researcher Chris Clark is obsessed with hummingbirds.

The Depths of the Sea

What creatures live in the depths of the sea? Manatees go about 6 meters into the depths of the water. Polar bears will dive down as far as 24 meters. A thick-billed murre, which is a bird, will search for food as deep as 210 meters.It's a long, long way down past that. Neal…

A Very Old Man for a Wolf

He was the alpha male of the first pack to live in Oregon since 1947. For years, a state biologist tracked him, collared him, counted his pups, weighed him, photographed him, and protected him. But then the animal known as OR4 broke one too many rules.

I Bought an Elephant to Find Out How to Save Them

At a time of unprecedented mass extinctions, no animal epitomizes the global biodiversity free fall more than the Asian elephant. Paul Kvinta travels to Laos to visit a moon-shot project aimed at saving the country's 400 remaining wild behemoths, investigate the strange…

The Long, Loving Search for Betsy the Cow

"She's missing. I’m not going to quit her."

The Octopus: An Alien Among Us

Self-replicating, bacterial life first appeared on Earth about 4 billion years ago. For most of Earth’s history, life remained at the single-celled level, and nothing like a nervous system existed …

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Starshift

In an era of climate change, everything feels strange. Even the places we call home.

Feral Horses, Fierce Controversy - Features - Jason G. Goldman - Alta Onlin

Wild mustang populations are out of control, competing with cattle and native wildlife for resources. If the federal government doesn’t rein them in, ranchers may take matters into their own hands.

How to Save a Loggerhead

Go behind the scenes at the South Carolina Aquarium's Sea Turtle Care Center during a nearly yearlong journey to get a massive injured loggerhead back home

How a 6,000-Year-Old Dog Cancer Spread Around the World

A massive collection of dog tumor samples is revealing the secrets of a contagious, parasite-like cancer that could help explain human cancers too.