With temperatures at the too-freaking-hot levels in recent weeks, squirrels and other animals have been doing a lot of “splooting” to beat the heat. Now, you may be wondering whether splooting ...

Lots of other animals sploot or lay down in this fashion. I follow a bunch of National Parks on Facebook, and they post all kinds of wild animals splooting out in the forests and our National Parks.

Female leadership takes a variety of forms. Females of some species, such as bonobos and spotted hyenas, rule by forging ...

Scientists and enthusiastic dog owners alike have long quibbled about what attributes or tendencies make one animal smarter ...

Most other animals can’t sweat as freely as humans ... Some hide out underground. Splooting is part of the animal kingdom’s compendium of cooldown strategies. But even splooting might have ...

Ants in Florida perform life-saving surgery on their peers, scientists have discovered. They are only the second animal in ...

Other terrestrial animals exploited by humans include (but are not limited to) small mammals (e.g., rabbits, squirrels, mice, rats), reptiles, and amphibians. Small mammals throughout the world are ...

sheds light on how animals interact with each other and their environments, and why they behave the way they do. By studying animal behavior, humans can also learn more about their own behavior ...

A team of anthropologists and biologists from Canada, Poland, and the U.S., working with researchers at the American Museum ...

But animals that can’t sweat resort to other behaviors to cool off. The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, with the state facing extreme heat in recent years, shared a video in 2023 of a Texas ...

This book examines Derrida's contribution to this long-standing philosophical and political debate, which has typically evoked a significant division between human beings and other animals. Derrida ...