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Costa Rica In the wake of Friday’s crocodile attack of a Colorado surfer at Tamarindo beach in Costa Rioca’s northern Guanacaste province, legislators and tourist businesses are again clamoring for ...

Today's ecologists have more data than ever before to help monitor and understand the world's biodiversity. Yet researchers ...

Electronic tracking devices provide more precise information on animals, similar to the GPS technology found in smartphones.

People sometimes do silly things, both intentionally and unintentionally. But so do animals. Since they can't capture those moments themselves, luckily, there's us. When it comes to pets ...

But what about the rest of the animal kingdom–how do non-human animals understand and respond to death? The answer depends on species, individual, and circumstance. “There’s a wide variety ...

As behavioral ecologists, we are interested in how adverse experiences early in life can affect animals' behavior, including the kinds of decisions they make and the way they interact with the ...

Look for these packages in popular destinations like Manuel Antonio and Guanacaste. For a more intimate and unique experience ...

A team of biologists led by The University of Texas at Arlington has discovered a new tiny lizard species in the Paria ...

Wild animals also experience adversity. Although their negative experiences are easy to dismiss as part of life in the wild, they still have lifelong repercussions – just like traumatic events ...

It isn’t the world’s tiniest lizard, but the discovery of this odd-looking gecko by a University of Texas at Arlington ...

The Viñales National Park on the western side of the island of Cuba is a biological hotspot, and it is here that researchers ...