Georgie, a baby goat acquired in an auction, was supposed to join his animal family seamlessly — but they had other ideas. Instead, he bonded with his human caretakers and has become an Internet ...

Have you ever wondered what happens to pets at the pet store that don’t get purchased? It’s so sad! Some of these animals ...

We've all heard of the ‘Cat Distribution System,' where a random, stray cat comes up to someone and then they have themselves a new cat. It's a great way to add a fur baby to your family and to give a ...

The Night Parrot is a medium‑sized ground dwelling bird associated with mature Spinifex habitat in arid and semi-arid regions. Presumed extinct for a century, a population was rediscovered in 2013, ...

Budgerigars perched in a tree. Credit: Sean Kelleher / CC BY-SA 2.0 Budgerigars, small and colorful parrots, are known for their ability to mimic human speech. Scientists have now discovered that ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other researchers have found little to no evidence of past infections with H5N1 bird flu when they analyzed blood samples from the general ...

They also show a range of behaviors, from complex songs to vocal mimicry to whatever it is that you want to call what parrots do. Thanks to a newly released study, however, we now have evidence ...

The ongoing spread of the highly pathogenic bird flu worldwide is reaching an “unprecedented” scale, a United Nations agency warned Monday. Speaking at a conference in Rome, key members of the ...

When it comes to speech, parrots have the gift of gab. And the way the brains of small parrots known as budgerigars bestow this gift is remarkably similar to human speech, researchers report March ...

Neural recordings from parrots and songbirds reveal the ways in which vocal production is encoded in the brain, highlighting remarkable similarities between how parrots and humans learn to produce ...

(AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File) Bird flu has devastated poultry and dairy farms, and sent the price of eggs soaring in the United States since it was first detected in North America in late 2021.