One of two collegiate teaching zoos in the U.S. — the other is in Florida — Moorpark College's facility graduates about 45 students per academic year.

Simple tricks, happy pup.

Margaret Gitter returns to her alma mater, Benedictine University in Lisle, six times a year with some visitors from her ...

Humans have long been fascinated by the idea of communicating with other species — not just teaching animals to mimic human words, but truly understanding their calls or cries, and interpreting their ...

So far in this series of articles about learning and education, I've said almost nothing about teaching. That has been deliberate. In our culture we do too much teaching, or too much of what we call ...

Western Michigan University is committed to the highest standard of treatment and care of our animals* with the best possible care and thorough oversight by adhering to standards and regulations ...

Did you know that dragonflies can become obese? That koalas get Chlamydia? Or that cancer dates back to the dinosaurs? In fact, animals suffer from a lot of the same medical maladies as humans, and ...

As educators, we’re always looking for new ways to motivate our students and invigorate our teaching. In my class of English-language learners, students often, justifiably, are fearful being in a new ...