Have you ever been to a zoo and thought that the animals looked sad? Or perhaps you’ve visited a wildlife park and felt that the animals were chilled and content? Humans are pretty good at judging how ...

In CUriosity, experts across the CU Boulder campus answer pressing questions about humans, our planet and the universe beyond. This week, Marc Bekoff, professor emeritus in the Department of Ecology ...

"Our emotional bonds with other species and their members [are] fundamental to conservation..." —Michelle Nijhuis, Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction (p. 269) 1 I recently ...

When I received Multiple Gold Medal–Winning Author Milana Anderson's latest book Animal Fairy Tales: Bedtime Animal Short Stories for Kids (Book Ten: Touch of Love) and started reading it, I couldn't ...

Humans are social beings and complex emotions have always been a part of human evolution but did you ever wonder that some animals are also capable of showing complex emotions just like humans. Well ...

Overall, people are better at detecting the intensity of the emotion in zoo animals rather than whether it’s a good or bad one. Humans were better at recognizing negative zoo animal emotions than ...