As a kid, you probably imagined what it would be like to have a pet lion or tiger that you could ride around on, cuddle up with it and have fuck up your enemies whenever they messed with you. Then, ideally, you grew up and learned that having a pet wild cat, while totally glamourous seeming, is not at all practical. » 4/29/13 1:50pm 4/29/13 1:50pm

The phrase "childless man" is about as common as "working father." In our culture there's an implicit priority of motherhood for all women, while men are simply thought of as men and not "potential parents." Interestingly, though, a new study finds that men are much more emotionally distraught by not having children than… » 4/03/13 10:25am 4/03/13 10:25am

Remember when Knut was a tiny, adorable ball of white fur? Now everyone's favorite cub is a man - or a 300-pound sex machine. "He's going to be our new stud bull," said the Berlin Zoo director. [TheSun] » 3/24/10 9:20am 3/24/10 9:20am

Researchers at the University of Bristol have done an exhaustive study of the way birds mate and came to the conclusion that when there were a variety of male birds looking to mate, the females would hold off on mating to apparently determine which male bird was willing to stick around long enough to stick it in*,… » 12/04/08 3:40pm 12/04/08 3:40pm

Japanese zookeepers have discovered why their attempts to mate the two polar bears at the Kushiro city zoo have failed: Both are female. When Tsuyoshi, a supposedly male 4-year-old polar bear was introduced to Kurumi, the zoo's 11-year-old female, "he" failed to make any advances. "One day we realized that the two bears… » 11/26/08 11:20am 11/26/08 11:20am