Why is it that Americans eat cows and pigs but not horses and dogs? There’s only one reason: custom. We’re used to it, that’s all. There’s certainly nothing about horses and dogs that renders them ...

While this might not seem like much, chimps eat so much fruit (around 10 percent of their body mass every day!), it ends up being significant. With this information, the researchers calculated that ...

Alcohol can make you woozy and nauseous when you drink too much, but why do humans love it? Wild chimpanzees may hold the answer. Chimps could be eating enough fermented fruit each day and consuming ...

Chimps' ability to metabolize fermented fruit could explain our own predilection for alcohol. Chimpanzees could be consuming ...

There are signs in Michigan’s Clark’s Marsh that caution hunters and anglers against eating the game or fish they harvest there. Similar warnings are posted in Oregon’s Columbia Slough, which advise ...