Seaquest, a completely interactive experience for families and children of all ages, provides an opportunity to explore rain forests, deserts and oceans while interacting with some of the most magical ...

Did you know that animal sounds can be crucial to your child’s early speech and language development? Speech refers to the production of sounds that transform into words through the physical act of ...

The El Paso Zoo and Botanical Gardens is throwing an Earth Day celebration packed with animals, activities and hands-on fun.

The Alliance of Marine Mammal Parks & Aquariums (AMMPA) has posted a new, one-stop resource that brings the animals and caretakers at dozens of world-renowned facilities together with ...

Utopia Wildlife Rehabilitators volunteer Shawn Tyler holds on to a small opossum as he leads an educational session during tour of Utopia Wildlife Rehabilitators in Hope, Ind., Tuesday, June 17, 2025.

From tickling to playing catch, animals engage in certain behaviors just for fun, even enjoying sensations that are unknown to humans, concludes an extensive new survey on pleasure in the animal ...

The fact that animals can use tools, have self-control and certain expectations of life can be explained with the help of a new learning model for animal behaviour. Researchers at Stockholm University ...

I've studied various aspects of play behavior in a wide variety of nonhuman animals (animals) for decades, focusing mostly on members of the "dog family" (canids), while some of my students have ...