Detail that zoochosis can come from a variety of factors, including social isolation, small enclosures, noisy visitors, and lack of enrichment. Explore how zoos are working to reduce zoochosis through ...

Seeing a deadly ‘civil war’ unfold among chimpanzees has been a painful experience for John Mitani. His decades of watching wild great apes now evoke his family’s experience with xenophobia. But to ...

National Park Service officials on Tuesday identified rabies as a possible cause for "strange wildlife behavior" and dead foxes at Arizona's Saguaro National Park. There was also a reported incident ...

The context in which abnormal behaviors occur can be divided into two categories, termed maladaptive and malfunctional: Maladaptive behaviors refer to types of behaviors that inhibit an animal's ...

WACO, Texas (KWTX) - On April 8, Central Texans will get to experience a total solar eclipse, a rare phenomenon that can have some interesting effects on animals and livestock. Part of what makes this ...

A tiger walks the same worn groove along the edge of its exhibit, like a broken record. A parrot methodically plucks out its own feathers until bare skin shows through. To a casual visitor, these can ...