If you've ever known the love of an animal, you know the feeling. It's playing a game of fetch with your dog when you're happy or cuddling with your cat when you're sad. It's a wet nose nuzzling your ...

This piece comes to us from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). In honor of LGBTQ+ Pride month, Nature and WCS are sharing stories of nature and conservation from members of these communities.

DENVER — Girl dad. Single mom. Committed couple. Friends that are family. There are so many types of relationships at the Denver Zoo, and so much cuteness to celebrate on Valentine's Day. The herd of ...

Cumberland Valley Animal Shelter answers your pet-related questions. Oxytocin may offer a clue into the ability for animals to love, and one reader wonders if her friend is crazy for not knowing a cat ...

Whether animals can experience romantic love is unknown. But there is some evidence that they are capable of experiencing the same range of emotions as we can. The brains of many mammals are ...

Animals don't read relationship advice or attend therapy sessions, but they understand things about love that many of us spend a lifetime struggling to grasp. They live with an emotional honesty and ...

"If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans." — James Herriot, ‘All Creatures Great And Small,’ 1972. Animal stories ...

For the majority of animals, Valentine’s Day is no more than a day like any other (though some lucky cats might delight in the added presence of sniffable flowers and swatable heart-shaped boxes).

Animals do not choose fruit by chance. What they eat depends on smell, ripeness, texture, and what is available in the moment. Some fruits are taken simply because they drop along familiar paths, ...

People have incredibly illogical and inconsistent biases about different animals in general, but at the same time, even vegetarians generally agree with non-vegetarians How do people think about the ...