The last tamandua birth at DCZA, in 2014, was Cayenne, whose mother, Rio, another first-time mother, became inattentive and wasn’t allowing Cayenne to nurse. As a result, zookeepers had to step in and ...

Deception is everywhere in nature. Animals and plants routinely cheat, lie and manipulate for their own benefit. One example ...

Long before humans wired their world with language, another kind of intelligence may have quietly mastered its own planet ...

Scientists continue to study these creatures to understand how their minds work — and how evolution shaped their intelligence ...