Animal Science

On this edition of Talk of Iowa, host Charity Nebbe speaks with museum professionals from around the state, including the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library & Museum, the Museum of Danish America, the Science Center of Iowa and the National Mississippi River Museum and Aquarium, about how they see their futures.

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This program originally aired on 12-22-17If you’ve ever taken a psychology class, you’ve probably heard the story of Phineas Gage. He was a railroad…

Wildlife rehabilitator Heather Bedard of Waterloo recently got a phone call about six baby raccoons that a homeowner had removed from a nest on his…

The video of a 59-year-old chimpanzee on her death bed, embracing a researcher she has known for 40 years, brought viewers around the world to tears.“It…

The only research facility in North America to house and study bonobos, the Ape Cognition and Conservation Initiative (ACCI), plans to begin breeding…

The zoos of the 1970s would be barely recognizable when compared to the zoos of today, and some believe the zoos of the future will be radically different…

Chimpanzees are human's closest living animal relatives. They share 99 percent of human DNA and quite a bit of behavior, both positive and negative.On…

Iowa has the second worst animal protection laws of all 50 U.S. states, a point highlighted by a recent case where a groomer kicked a corgi at…

Through observation and carefully controlled study, human understanding of the behavior and intelligence of other creatures has grown exponentially over…