Penguin trainer Nick Vitale unlocks a door to a small cinderblock room. It's chilly, with buzzing fluorescent lights and a roaring ventilation fan. Also, it smells like fish. The perfect penguin love ...

Through strategic investment and collaboration, African livestock systems can harness tools such as genomic technologies and breeding programs to drive genetic gains. Supported by the African Animal ...

Editor’s Note: Call to Earth is a CNN editorial series committed to reporting on the environmental challenges facing our planet, together with the solutions. Rolex’s Perpetual Planet Initiative has ...

Scientists from the Institute for Breeding Rare and Endangered African Mammals have been working in southern Africa for over 15 years to protect endangered African wild dogs (Lycaon pictus). They've ...

KIMBERLEY, South Africa (Reuters) -Until the last half-decade, the majestic lesser flamingo had four African breeding sites: two salt pans in Botswana and Namibia, a soda lake in Tanzania, and an ...

During the breeding season, the center of a pond serves as a hotspot for mating activity. Being at this coveted location signifies dominance and increases a male bullfrog's chances of attracting a ...

Three species of the melodic African warbler bird refuse to get up early and sing their customary daybreak songs when the ...

(Bloomberg) -- South Africa’s cabinet approved a phased end to the captive breeding of lions and rhinos as the country seeks to end practices that have sullied its reputation as a custodian of some of ...

AMES, Iowa – An Iowa State University effort to kick start a new generation of plant breeding in Africa is expanding its mission. A new three-year, $750,000 grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates ...

Damien Boyd Bertrand Paul Paris receives funding from Morris Animal Foundation, Roger Willliams Park Zoo and Fresno Chaffee Zoo. He is affiliated with James Cook University, the Institute for Breeding ...