Cats are born hunters. So hopefully you’ve come to terms with the gifts of dead mice and birds little Fluffy periodically brings you. After all, that’s what they do, right? But the sheer scale of the ...

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Health & Biosecurity Risks Feral (and stray) cats are associated with the spread of toxoplasmosis, a parasite that can harm ...

Researchers with the Western Australian Museum and Curtin University found evidence of fluorescence in multiple mammal samples Gabrielle Rockson is a staff writer-reporter for PEOPLE. She joined ...

Guatemala’s rainforests support a remarkable diversity of cat species, including jaguars, pumas, ocelots, and the ...

Erick Smith, full-time ecologist and co-owner of Kestrel Ecological Services, said cats are an invasive species, and he’s ...

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Of the 84 mammal species that are known to have gone extinct since the 1500s, 35 percent are from Australia, a new study finds. Since the 1840s — less than 60 years after the arrival of Europeans — ...

New research has revealed which Australian mammals are most vulnerable to cats and foxes, and many much-loved potoroos, bandicoots and bettongs, as well as native rodents, are at the top of the list.

Living deep in the tropical rainforests of Central and Western Africa, the golden cat is so sneaky, no one knows how many ...