Working members carry the cage containing the returned elephant at the Yunnan Wild Animal Park in Kunming, southwest China's Yunnan Province, Sept. 5, 2008. Four out of five elephants returned their home from a wild animal protection center

It's an awful feeling to know these rare animals might be sick from a disease we humans unknowingly passed on to them. Definitive proof of such transmission still lies ahead in the analysis of the data we're slowly collecting.

I recently read an article about a Dog Day Care who had the unfortunate experience of a dog escaping the facility in the middle of the day and no one noticed.

San Francisco- In response to a scientific petition filed by the Center for Biological Diversity, the federal government announced today it was launching a full status review to determine whether three ice-dependent seal species that inhabit Alaskan water

Many horses are injured even before reaching their final destination. Some are shipped for more than 24 hours at a time without food, water or rest, and the methods used to kill these horses once they arrive at the plant can be exceptionally inhumane.

Pennsylvania state police, failing to capture an emu running loose on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, opted to taser rather than shoot. The poor frightened bird died anyway.

ScienceDaily (Aug. 5, 2008) -- Most of the world's plant species rely on animals to transfer their pollen to other plants. The undisputed queen of these animal pollinators is the bee, made up of about 30,000 species worldwide ...

Please send your e-mail. Bees are a critical agricultural resource that help produce $15 billion worth of crops in the United States each year.

Her body was hot hot hot. She was terrified. When I pet her, lots of fur fell out. She was becoming increasingly limp. I stepped on the gas a little harder....

How the insects see things around them