Purdue University College of Agriculture

What are animals feeling? Purdue animal scientists are learning how to read their emotions.

Heather Neave researches animal welfare, a field focused on understanding what practices can improve the lives of animals on ...
Psychology Today

Animal Minds: Can We Really Know What They Think and Feel?

Dr. Mike Dacey analyses the challenges researchers face when studying the cognitive and emotional lives of animals and offers ...
STAT

There is no replacement (yet) for animal models in medical research

LaBonne is president of the Society for Developmental Biology and the Erastus Otis Haven professor of molecular biosciences at Northwestern University. Imagine a world without lifesaving medicines, ...
Smithsonian Magazine

How Are Animals Paired at the National Zoo?

Get ready for Valentine’s Day by learning how zoo matchmakers use science to “swipe right” for conservation. Mike Bock Male Andean bear Quito (above) has fathered two cubs at the Smithsonian’s ...
The New York Times

A Skeleton Bank of Understudied Species

With a new database of medical images, zoo and wildlife vets can finally see what healthy uncommon animals, from rhinos and tamarins to pangolins and sea stars, should look like on the inside. With a ...
NPR

The global effort to genetically map 70,000 animal species

The Vertebrate Genomes Project: It's an ambitious effort by an international group of scientists to create a "Genome Ark" by sequencing the genomes of about 70,000 animal species. The hope is that ...
news.iastate.edu

Virtual dissection fleshes out instruction in animal science anatomy lab

AMES, Iowa – In a recent class session devoted to reviewing the components of a monogastric digestive system, Alexandra Else-Keller reminded an animal science student how to position her fingers as ...
University of Wyoming

Animal and Veterinary Science

Focus on animal or public health through the interdisciplinary master's or Ph.D. in animal and veterinary science at the University of Wyoming. You’ll learn from UW faculty who are experts in various ...
University of Delaware

UD’s animal science graduate degree paves a path to veterinary school

When Lexi Roloson decided to become a veterinarian, she had a problem: it was her senior year of college, and she had zero veterinary work experience, a requirement for the competitive veterinary ...