Being a mother is a tremendous accomplishment and one of the most challenging jobs in the world. This applies even in the animal kingdom, where it can be a literal dog-eat-dog world for many species.

But there are other reasons that a species might synchronously reproduce. In one social group of banded mongoose, more than ...

TAMPA, Fla. — ZooTampa at Lowry Park on Wednesday announced that it is celebrating the birth of a critically endangered eastern bongo calf, the zoo’s first animal birth of the year. The female calf ...