The animal kingdom is packed with surprising eating behaviors that challenge human understanding of what’s normal or acceptable. In nature, survival is everything—meaning even the most shocking animal ...

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A new study by researchers at the University of Washington shows that losing a particular group of endangered animals—those that eat fruit and help disperse the seeds of trees and other plants—could ...

Binge eating, especially on high-fat, high-sugar foods, can rewire the brain and alter behavior, leading to compulsive food-seeking and a greater likelihood of overeating instead of under-eating when ...

In places where we need to protect valuable plants—whether for ecological or economic reasons—local herbivores can cause significant damage. Current solutions often involve killing the problem animals ...

Animals have evolved to eat a lot of different things, even stuff that barely passes for food, and it shapes our entire lives from what we look like to where we live. Today, we’ll talk about why being ...

I was in college when I saw my first truly chonky raccoon. It was perched on the rim of a trash can, a half-eaten tuna-salad sandwich clutched between its forepaws, its whiskers pinwheeling as it ...

They’re nutritious, affordable, and always in demand. Learn how staffers prepare and deliver thousands of bugs each week to the animals living at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation ...