A new study pinpoints which part of a mosquito's body is repulsed by the taste of DEET. Philippe Hugen /AFP/Getty Images hide caption
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Foxtrot and Gemma Snowdon of the U.N.'s World Food Programme, who rescued the lost 4-week-old puppy. Jason Beaubien/NPR hide caption
Birds wade on the banks of the Imjin. Kim Seung-ho tallied 32 species of birds in the CCZ in a single morning. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption
Rohingya refugees use a mock elephant during a training session on how to respond to elephant incursions at the Kutupalong refugee camp. The massive refugee camp sits in what used to be a migratory path for elephants moving between Myanmar and Bangladesh. Munir Uz Zaman/Getty Images hide caption
The rescued dog appeared to be growing stronger on the oil rig before he made his journey back to shore. Vitisak Payalaw hide caption
Starr, a female bald eagle, looks over her eaglets in a nest along the Mississippi River in April. She is raising the three eaglets along with her two male partners, Valor I and Valor II. Stewards of Upper Mississippi River Refuge via AP hide caption
Julian Assange's cat wears a striped tie and white collar as it looks out the window of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London in 2016. Chris J. Ratcliffe/Getty Images hide caption
Horses and jockeys charge toward the finish of a race on Santa Anita Derby day. The Derby was the most prominent event on a schedule that included 11 horse races. Tom Goldman/NPR hide caption
23 Thoroughbred Deaths Force Santa Anita To Change. Will The Racing Industry Follow?
The North American porcupine has a cute face, but it has upward of 30,000 menacing quills covering much of its body. The slow-moving herbivore uses them as a last-resort defense against predators. Lindsay Wildlife Experience hide caption
Animal rights protesters link arms to block an intersection in the central business district of Melbourne, Australia, on Monday. Ellen Smith/Reuters hide caption
On Friday, Big Cypress National Preserve announced in a post to Facebook that its team of researchers had discovered a 17-foot python, the largest one ever to be removed from the swamp. Big Cypress National Preserve/Screenshot by NPR hide caption
One World Trade Center (WTC) stands in the lower Manhattan skyline as birds fly over the Hudson River in Hoboken, New Jersey, on Feb. 8, 2019. Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption
Recent isotopic analysis of pig remains from several ceremonial sites in the Stonehenge area show that the swine and celebrants sometimes came from as far as what is now Scotland and Wales. Joe Daniel Price/Getty Images hide caption
Some cats can be trained to do the same things dogs can do. Diane Bondareff/AP Images for Purina Pro Plan hide caption
A street kitten looks out from behind a panel of lights in Cyprus in 2018. Hasan Jamali/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
The United States Department of Agriculture announced on Tuesday it will discontinue a research program that involved killing thousands of cats. The agency has been under pressure to put an end to the program. USDA photo obtained through a FOIA request/White Coat Waste Project hide caption
Cattle eating a mixture of antibiotic-free corn and hay at Corrin Farms, near Neola, Iowa. Their meat is sold by Niman Ranch. Dan Charles/NPR hide caption
Some In The Beef Industry Are Bucking The Widespread Use Of Antibiotics. Here's How
Flamingos flock to Mumbai between September and April, but this year there are almost three times more birds than the amount that usually flocks to the area. Bachchan Kumar/Hindustan Times via Getty Images hide caption
More Flamingos Are Flocking to Mumbai Than Ever Before. The Reason Could be Sewage
A part of Band-e-Amir, Afghanistan's first national park, in Bamiyan province. Massoud Hossaini/AP hide caption
Pierre Comizzoli (right), reproductive physiologist at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, performs an artificial insemination on giant panda Mei Xiang March 29, 2019. Don Neiffer (left), chief veterinarian at the Smithsonian's National Zoo, performs for the procedure. (Roshan Patel/Smithsonian's National Zoo)/Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute hide caption
A chimpanzee hugs her newborn at Burgers' Zoo in Arnhem, Netherlands, in 2010. Over the course of his long career, primatologist Frans de Waal has become convinced that primates and other animals express emotions similar to human emotions. AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Sex, Empathy, Jealousy: How Emotions And Behavior Of Other Primates Mirror Our Own
Peter Kaiser and his team of dogs take off at the start of the Iditarod race. John Wallace hide caption
Envy is a useful tool for social comparison. But sometimes, it can lead us to wicked places. Steve Scott/Getty Images/Ikon Images hide caption