As a teenager in the 1970s, I worked on a typical dairy farm in England. Fifty cows grazed on lush pastures for most of their long lives, each producing about 12 liters of milk daily. They were loved ...

Wild for Life's new Saratoga Springs headquarters will be the region's only wildlife center with clinic, rehab and education.

Fatal attractions are a standard movie plotline, but they also occur in nature, with much more serious consequences. As a conservation biologist, I’ve seen them play out in some of Earth’s most remote ...

As a teenager in the 1970s, I worked on a typical dairy farm in England. Fifty cows grazed on lush pastures for most of their long lives, each producing about 12 litres of milk daily. They were loved ...

For this year’s Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition, celebrating its 60th anniversary, the Natural History Museum of London attracted a record-breaking 59,228 entries from photographers of ...

There are few things more joyful, if occasionally nerve-wracking, than having a pet in your home. And plenty of people agree. According to the American Pet Products Association, around 94 million ...

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Wild animals are not just inhabitants of the natural world. Many also act as natural landscape engineers, reshaping Earth's surface as they burrow, feed, and build shelters that move soil and sediment ...

Books about writers’ dogs and cats are a literary staple. Now there’s a booming subset of memoirs about writers’ relationships with less domestic creatures. By Alexandra Alter Alexandra Alter’s ...

When Andrew Bardwell drives around the ranch he manages near Augusta, Montana, he keeps a rifle in the back seat of his pickup truck. Grizzly bears have started venturing into the property's thousands ...

This story originally published in the July 1906 issue of National Geographic magazine. See more digitized stories from our archives here. Looking back to that period, many years ago, when the finger ...