Rival males bring danger to langur families, forcing mothers to flee with their infants to steep, unforgiving cliffs. These white-headed langurs are among the rarest primates on Earth, found only in a ...

Ocean parents must master dedication and intelligence to raise their young. In Australia, an orca mother teaches her young how to hunt blue whales, while in Indonesia, a Banggai cardinalfish protects ...

For an octopus mother, mating marks the beginning of the end. She chooses a mate, lays her eggs, and spends her final days guarding them. A Father Fish Starves to Protect His Young This fish dad doesn ...

My wife and I often joke that we have our own little wild kingdom in our backyard. Over the years that we have lived in our house on the southeast side of Pittsfield, we have seen creatures big and ...

Grab a front-row seat as the consummate performer fields call-in requests for his greatest hits. Grab a front-row seat as the consummate performer fields call-in requests for his greatest hits in a ...

Frog eggs attract hungry predators, and this tiny father can only defend them from the smallest attackers. Just above him lives a tiger tarantula, a powerful ambush hunter. Together, they form an ...

Jeff Gordon arrived in New Hampshire for the summer race in 1995 straddling the two parts of his career -- the learning and the applying. He had spent 1993 and 1994 fast but more likely to crumple his ...

Animal parents must overcome freshwater’s constant changes. A frog dad scales giant Amazonian trees with tadpoles on his back, while an elephant mom must choose between the safety of her baby and the ...

In shrinking grasslands, crane parents must work together to protect their eggs from unexpected dangers. As livestock move closer, both parents are forced to act in defense of their future chicks — ...

Chimpanzees (often colloquially “chimps”) are African great apes in the genus Pan, which has two living species: the common chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) and the bonobo (Pan paniscus). The common ...

Sealed inside a mud-walled nest, a female hornbill relies entirely on her partner for food while she raises their chick. For months, the male delivers every meal through a narrow slit—until the day ...