Penguin fight: understanding animal contest behaviour in five easy steps

The battles seen in a recent viral video and the BBC's Planet Earth II documentary are just a glimpse of the contests that take place throughout …

Monitoring animal health must to prevent Ebola-like outbreaks: FAO

70 per cent of infectious diseases in recent decades have originated in animals

Re-creating live-animal markets in the lab lets researchers see how pathogens like coronavirus jump species

Within markets like the one in Wuhan, there are abundant opportunities for the type of interactions that promote pathogen transmission among species

India has not done much to address antimicrobial resistance: Global report

A survey by FAO, OIE and WHO has found wide discrepancies in countries’ efforts toward tackling AMR

Tagged Oliver Ridleys return to Gahirmatha after a decade

Around 4.6 lakh turtles have already laid eggs at Gahirmatha marine sanctuary, while their mass nesting started in February 

Health of humans, livestock interlinked in Africa

Researchers have found a strong link between the number of illnesses among family members in a particular household and the number of livestock …

New report flags use of antibiotics on animals

Out of 155 countries, 45 acknowledged using antibiotics on animals, says report by World Organisation for Animal Health; wake up call for India

Countries vow to wipe out sheep and goat plague globally by 2030

The deadly animal disease causes a loss of US $2billion annually and has put livelihood of millions of poor at risk in 70 countries of Asia and Africa

Animal health body issues alert on Mizoram pig disease

Disease surfaced in March; outbreak notified as first occurrence for India

Return of bird flu in India raises alarm

No confirmation yet on whether virus is a mutant one