But typically the consumption of plastic just leads to chronic, unrelenting hunger. Some animals now live in a world of plastics—like these hyenas scavenging at a landfill in Harar, Ethiopia.

These animals effectively act as landscape engineers, reorganising soils and sediments. Yet their combined global impact has never been explored, until now. Research that my colleagues and I ...

One of the most fascinating aspects of human life is how we choose our mates. Animals also choose their mates, sometimes with a great deal of care. Mating systems are important to understand ...

An instant best seller, the book belongs to a booming subgenre of autobiography: memoirs about the surprising bonds between humans and wild animals. Books about writers’ dogs and cats have long ...