It was always a joy to watch those laughing, giggling and fighting animals in cartoon films. Of course, a lot of their ...

A tour guide goes one step beyond, a macaw on the Q and more reader tales of New York City in this week’s Metropolitan Diary.

Another ape that cracks up in the wild is the bonobo, known for their cooperative and peaceful behaviour. They produce soft ...

CrowdScience listener Limbikani in Zambia is always being told he has his Dad’s laugh, so he set us the challenge of trying to find out whether a laugh can be passed down in our genes or if it’s ...

Public Health – Seattle and King County issued a warning on Facebook about toilet rats following severe flooding across Washington. Flooding causes sewer systems to get overwhelmed, and rodents start ...

Washington health officials warned residents that heavy rain and floodwater could sweep rats into the sewer systems and up into their ... well ... toilets! The ...

Here's what to do if you find a rat coming through your toilet following heavy Western Washington rain and floods. It was midnight when Simone Gabara got up to use the restroom in her White Center ...

Rats with naturally high stress levels were far more likely to self-administer cannabis when given access. Behavioral testing showed that baseline stress hormones were the strongest predictor of ...

Are you Ready to Laugh? Clay Higgins was the only Republican to vote against the Epstein files release. Here’s what he said Officials killed one of California's few wolf packs to protect cattle. Now a ...

A rat-infested home has plagued an Irvine neighborhood with rodents running around the streets for the last few weeks. Resident Sandy Turner said rats mostly come out of the house at night and camp ...

David Stipp’s “Why Rats Laugh & Jellyfish Sleep” is a breezy ode to nature’s long game. The respected science expert’s beautifully written book celebrates the adaptive ingenuity of animals whose ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: Call to Earth is a CNN editorial series committed to reporting on the environmental challenges facing our planet, together with the solutions. Rolex’s Perpetual Planet Initiative has ...