Learn more about kleptoparasitism and how animals adjust to it when their food sources are scarce.

To survive in the harsh wild, many animals turn to drastic measures for food. An example of this is a feeding strategy known as kleptoparasitism. While the word contains “parasite,” it actually refers ...

The human ability to cook may seem ordinary, but it marks one of the most important evolutionary turning points in our ...

Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. With a growing human population and rising living standards, demand for animal-derived ...

Most environmental scientists agree that producing food from animals has a much greater environmental and climate impact than producing food from plants with equivalent nutritional value. And, yet, ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Milk and meat from some cloned animals are safe to eat, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Thursday in a draft ruling that brings the controversial technology closer ...

Over the past century, worldwide consumption of food-animal products such as meat, milk, and eggs has steadily grown due to increases in global population and per capita income that fuel demand for ...