Animal play is fun, fair, chaotic, and serious business. The many ways in which nonhuman animals (animals) play with one another continues to intrigue many people—researchers, citizen scientists, and ...

The motivation behind everything that animals do is to stay alive, at least until they have produced offspring. Any species that cannot do this is not going to last for long. But are there occasions ...

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Imagine stumbling upon what seems to be a lifeless creature, collapsed on its side, utterly motionless, and perhaps even emitting a foul odour. To the untrained eye, it appears dead, yet in a matter ...