When it comes to affectionate and friendly animals, most people opt for cats or dogs, but there are others who take a more interesting route, choosing rodents, birds, reptiles, or fish. Signs that a ...

How can you resist the charm of an innocent, sweet soul? While people can be complicated, relationships often become messy, ...

Whether animals can experience romantic love is unknown. But there is some evidence that they are capable of experiencing the same range of emotions as we can. The brains of many mammals are ...

Shankland's award-winning interdisciplinary book examines our dominance of and affection for animals and how empathy toward ...

It goes without saying that nothing compares to a permanent home with a loving human. However, a shelter isn’t the absolute worst place an animal can end up, despite many having quite a different ...

A new book looks at the health links between animals and humans. June 12, 2012— -- intro: Dr. Barbara Natterson-Horowitz is a sort of modern day Dr. Dolittle. For the past six years, the UCLA ...

Cumberland Valley Animal Shelter answers your pet-related questions. Oxytocin may offer a clue into the ability for animals to love, and one reader wonders if her friend is crazy for not knowing a cat ...

There are plenty of things that animals can do that we can’t. I don’t know any humans who can fly, swim for thousands of miles at a time or survive in the Arctic without a coat. But despite the ...

How can you resist the charm of an innocent, sweet soul? While people can be complicated, relationships often become messy, and personalities sometimes clash, nothing quite compares to the ...