P eople have a lot of opinions about pet parents calling their cats and dogs their "kids," but as a human and pet mom, I can ...

On the shores of Botswana’s Gomoti River, Africa’s three big cat families have made themselves at home. Each has carved out a space to raise their young while trying to avoid the others.

“We had a house cat,” she tells ESSENCE ... I wanted to be a nature show host. I wanted to do what I was seeing on TV. And it wasn’t clear to me that what I was seeing on TV was science ...