mating rituals

Got a Case of Wild Love?

So do we! There are many divergent mating systems in the animal kingdom from monogamous to polygamous, and even to systems so indefinable that they’re anomalous. In honor of Valentine’s … Read more

Playing the Field of Love

With Valentine’s Day quickly approaching, it’s nice to step back and appreciate the love that’s going on around us. Humans are not the only beings capable of forming relationships. Wildlife … Read more

Valentine's Day, birds, wildlife, feeding mates

Valentine’s Day: A Holiday for Real Animals

Naturalist, writer and NWF Conservation Hall of Fame inductee Ernest Thompson Seton, whose animal tales were popular among a wide audience in the early 1900s, wrote in Wild Animals I Have … Read more