Whether dogs are carnivores is a hotly debated question. On the one hand, they belong to the Carnivora order and descend from meat-eating wolves. On the other hand, they can process carbohydrate ...

Large carnivores in Africa are important from ecological, economic and cultural perspectives, but human activities put them at risk. Increasingly, lions, hyenas and African wild dogs are restricted to ...

Scat-sniffing research dogs are helping scientists map out a plan to save reclusive jaguars, pumas, bush dogs and other endangered carnivores in the increasingly fragmented forests of northeastern ...

The magnetic sense in migratory birds has been studied in considerable detail: unlike a boy scout's compass, which shows the compass direction, a bird's compass recognizes the inclination of the ...

India, Feb. 17 -- In Spiti Valley's harsh high-altitude landscape, a new study finds that snow leopards, wolves, foxes and free-ranging dogs coexist by constantly shifting their behaviour - adjusting ...

Researchers enlisted dog sniffing power to locate the scat of five threatened carnivores across an increasingly fragmented Atlantic Forest landscape and identified the animals’ species through genetic ...