Giraffes congregate at the Copenhagen Zoo. The culling of a giraffe named Marius at this zoo in 2014 sparked a debate about the practice of euthanizing surplus animals at zoos. We argue that such ...

A vibrant discussion of the merits and limitations of animal models is long overdue. The limitation of space precludes addressing many of the questionable approaches and statements by Takao and ...

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The inclination to explore across vast expanses has been a continual part of human history. In voyages across the Atlantic, or North America, one of the greatest obstacles was the availability of ...

Lithium-ion batteries are a remarkable technological success story. With improving performance and plunging costs over the last decade, they have helped to transform modern life, powering cell phones, ...

Zhang et al. (1) question whether our study (2) provides evidence of multiple parallel vector memories coexisting in bumblebees. They suggest that an alternate model, where a single vector memory is ...

The authors note that one grant number (2021R1A2C3003518) was omitted. The affected sentence of the Acknowledgments should read: “This study was supported by grants from the National Research ...

The authors note that they inadvertently left off acknowledgment of the high school student who constructed the robot used in the playpen studies. The Acknowledgments should state: “We thank the ...

The authors note that the affiliation for Andréa G. Grottoli should instead appear as School of Earth Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210. The ...

Shangshan pottery vessels and artistic representation of red beer served with a jar and cup. The effects of climate change on the movements and densities of marine and terrestrial species have been ...

Warm-blooded animals can raise their core body temperature in response to infection, but cold-blooded animals must behaviorally induce a fever by seeking external warmth to raise body temperature.