A Bright Side feature compiling 17 stories of unlikely animal friendships highlights bonds that transcend species, from cats adopting puppies to giraffes protecting zebras. These heartwarming accounts ...

While an increasingly small number of people, especially academic researchers, try to argue that nonhuman animals (animals) don’t really make friends, most people, including both researchers and ...

A research team led by Professor Luo Shujin from the School of Life Sciences has uncovered a surprising chapter in the history of cats in China. Through ancient DNA sequencing of feline remains ...

Every year, researchers who study human-animal relationships get together at the annual meeting of the International Society for Anthrozoology (ISAZ for short) to schmoose and trade the results of our ...

In the movie Hoppers, scientists “hop” human consciousness into animal-like robots to talk to other species. We asked the experts their thoughts on how conceivable the plot is. Some scientists believe ...

Puppies, particularly ones on a farm, enjoy making friends. Or at least they enjoy trying to make friends in the hope that every animal and human they meet will want to be their friend. Unfortunately, ...