Giraffes congregate at the Copenhagen Zoo. The culling of a giraffe named Marius at this zoo in 2014 sparked a debate about the practice of euthanizing surplus animals at zoos. We argue that such ...

Warm-blooded animals can raise their core body temperature in response to infection, but cold-blooded animals must behaviorally induce a fever by seeking external warmth to raise body temperature.

Edited by Jon Abbatt, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; received August 18, 2024; accepted November 4, 2024 by Editorial Board Member Akkihebbal R. Ravishankara ...

Lithium-ion batteries are a remarkable technological success story. With improving performance and plunging costs over the last decade, they have helped to transform modern life, powering cell phones, ...

The inclination to explore across vast expanses has been a continual part of human history. In voyages across the Atlantic, or North America, one of the greatest obstacles was the availability of ...

Edited by Mark Thiemens, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA; received August 9, 2024; accepted October 28, 2024 ...

Cliffs of brown North Mountain Basalt atop latest Triassic-age white and red lacustrine strata of the Fundy Basin, outcropping along the north shore of the Bay of Fundy at Five Islands Provincial Park ...

The Mauthner neuron (MN), the largest neuron in the vertebrate brain, processes multisensory information to trigger a rapid predator escape response in fish. Mercedes Hildebrandt et al. tested whether ...

Edited by Éva Kondorosi, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Biological Research Centre, Szeged, Hungary; received March 26, 2024; accepted October 7, 2024 ...

The Earth is always changing, yet animal, human, and environmental interconnections are each increasing at such force, frequency, and range that the planet faces a primordial, anthropogenic condition ...

A matriarch feeds with her calf in Samburu National Reserve, Kenya. African elephants have experienced pressure from ivory harvest and habitat loss over the past several decades. A comprehensive ...