wildlife biology

Locals helped researchers find the extremely rare boa.

See a boa species that scientists hadn't witnessed alive in more than 50 years.

Human visitors to camera traps display, well, human behavior.

Researchers in Australia claim to have successfully used immunotherapy to treat devil facial tumor disease.

The federal government concludes the rusty patched bumblebee is nearing extinction.

Researchers use a century of trade records to uncover differences in the resilience of terrestrial and aquatic species.

See images from a century of fur trapping and hunting in the Amazon basin.

A cetacean succumbed to a fungal infection shortly after being darted by researchers seeking to learn more about the species’ migrations and population dynamics.

A round-up of recent discoveries in behavior research

Researchers identify three new examples of infectious cancers affecting these invertebrates.

A study suggests bats in Asia could have genes that protect them from the fungal infection that is decimating bat populations in North America.

A second fatal, transmissible cancer has been identified in the already endangered species.  

Researchers are struggling to understand shifts in the migratory patterns of penguins in the Southwest Atlantic.

See the volunteers and veterinarians who are helping to rehabilitate wayward penguins that wash up on the coast of Brazil.

Chinese farmers’ efforts at rearing wild animals may benefit conservation and reduce human health risks.

Bats' special relationship with pathogens

With the iconic Australian marsupial carnivore on the brink of extinction, Tasmanian researchers race to unlock the immunological mysteries of a disease threatening the species.

See the devastating infectious cancer that may drive the Tasmanian Devil to extinction.

Researchers whose work requires that they draw blood from wild animals are finding unlikely collaborators in biting insects.

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