What kind of dad stays home with the kids while their mother is out having sex? A wattled jacana dad—even when he knows that he’s being cuckolded and the offspring he’s minding may not be his.

Golden Moles rank surprisingly high on the list of most endangered animals in South Africa; with five different species ...

Cassowaries are beautiful, colorful creatures. The southern, or double-wattled cassowary has a shimmering black body. Their necks are blue, turquoise and magenta, and they have a horned crest on ...

They are fast and rarely fly. At first you may not be sure what you are looking at with the Long-Wattled Umbrellabird. It ...

As we strolled back to the house, we paused to look at the long white stables, the thatched granary with walls of wattled tree boughs, and other farm buildings. In the space between the house and ...

Early online research in journals of the American Meteorological Society finds storms growing "flatter," heat stress increasing in the U.S. Southeast, and a potential increase in intensity of European ...

That upends a delicate balance between native flora and rodents, reducing food for everything from Abyssinian hares to wattled ibises. This pattern plays out across Ethiopia—almost everywhere ...

Sports gambling shipwrecks us onto many life lessons, a few of which are true. The chief reason the house usually wins is that most gamblers buy the “when you’re hot ...

The reserve also hosts snakes like cobras, pythons and the Indian krait and a diverse population of avian beauties like the Indian pitta, pintail duck, red wattled lapwings, owls, vultures and ...