The urban landscape of Illinois has become an unlikely home to one of North America’s most able predators. When most people picture wildlife in major metropolitan areas, they think of pigeons, squirrels, or maybe the occasional raccoon. But something fascinating has been unfolding right under our noses in places like Chicago – thousands of coyotes ...
In rainforests, savannas, and city parks, parrots aren’t just squawking – they’re addressing one another with vocal labels that work much like names. This idea once sounded outlandish, the stuff of animal folklore, until a wave of field experiments and acoustic analyses turned the hunch into hard evidence. Scientists listening in on chaotic flocks began ...
When we think about emotions, we typically imagine them as uniquely human experiences. Yet across the animal kingdom, from the smallest mouse to the largest whale, creatures display complex emotional behaviors that challenge our understanding of what it means to feel. Recent surveys of animal behavior researchers show that an overwhelming majority ascribe emotions to ...
On busy summer evenings in the Great Smoky Mountains, you can feel a quiet negotiation unfolding between people and bears. Hikers stream off the trails, headlights ribbon the valleys, and somewhere in the understory a black bear pauses, listens, and changes course. The park holds roughly about two bears per square mile, an astonishing density ...
A stone clacks against a shell, a twig dips into a hidden tunnel, a leaf becomes a glove – across forests, reefs, and coastlines, animals are turning the world into a workshop. For decades, scientists assumed tool use was humanity’s calling card, the unmistakable line between our minds and theirs. Then field notes, camera traps, ...
On a warm night that should’ve been too cold for hunting, a camera trap blinked to life and caught a silhouette where no one expected it: a lone big cat slipping through dry grass at the edge of a farm. Scenes like this are emerging from mountain foothills, desert fringes, and coastal swamps across the ...
Pharmaceutical pollution is an emerging global issue, with over 900 active substances detected in waterways worldwide. Recent studies reveal that even trace amounts of drugs, such as the sedative clobazam, can significantly alter the behavior and migration patterns of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar). These findings highlight the far-reaching consequences of human activity on aquatic ecosystems. ...
Suhail Ahmed
Suhail Ahmed
