After Ali Swanson, an ecology researcher from the University of Minnesota, set up 225 cameras over 400 square miles of Tanzania's Serengeti National Park, she was hit by the curse of Big Data: how do ...

When it comes time to organize the many wildlife images that I make, I often agonize over how to classify them. Long ago I decided to use species, for example: a ...

When considering the scientists who influenced our understanding of evolution, it’s natural to think of Charles Darwin, Gregor Mendel, Rosalind Franklin, W.D. Hamilton, Barbara McClintock, and Richard ...

The cardinal rule of classifying animals as extinct, according to conservation scientist Stuart Pimm, is to remember the lessons of Shakespeare. Romeo, believing that an unconscious Juliet had taken ...

Yes and no: It depends on how you classify animals. There are two main classification systems – the Linnaean system which groups organisms by characteristics and the phylogenetics system, which ...

There are millions of different types of living things on Earth. In order to keep track of them all, scientists put living things into groups based on characteristics that they have that are the same.

Do you think warthogs are camera shy? Are anteaters more photogenic than ostriches? Thanks to an international project documenting the mysterious life of animals in eastern Africa we might be able to ...

A model of stimulus equivalence, which describes how non-similarity-based categories are formed, is used to describe aspects of animal social and communicative interactions such as kinship, friendship ...

A battle is brewing in local animal shelters over which animals should be tracked for adoption and which ones should be put to death. Montgomery County’s Animal Shelter claims a 96 percent adoption ...