If You Could Have Any Animal Feature, What Would It Be?
What do you know about elephants and their trunks?Watch the nine-second video embedded above of Kelly, a 34-year-old female African elephant at the Zoo Atlanta, using suction to grab a tortilla chip.Impressed? Does it make you wish you had a trunk?In “Elephant Trunks: Is There Anything They Can’t Do?” Richard Sima writes about a new…
Lesson Plan: ‘Animals Are Running Out of Places to Live’
In this lesson, students will learn about threats to animal habitats across the globe and what is being done to protect them.
What Is Our Responsibility to Lab Animals?
Standard ethical guidelines encourage minimizing the use of, and harm to, animals in research. Is that enough?
What Memorable Animals Have You Seen in the Wild?
A sea lion whose size has earned him the nickname Chonkers has become a sensation at a popular tourist spot in San Francisco. Are you bonkers for Chonkers?
