In St. Luke’s Gospel, Zacchaeus climbs a tree in order to see Christ above the crowd (Luke 19:1-10). It is an unexpected ...

The long-running conflict in a formerly unified community, the second ever observed, adds to Jane Goodall’s studies about a ...

A long-running conflict in a Ugandan park may provide clues to the origins of human warfare, and how to avoid it.

From tree giveaways at ArborFest to climbing walls, canyon wildflower walks and a slate of local events, there’s no shortage ...

A chimpanzee female (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) sleeps in a nest built in a tree in Uganda's Kibale National Park. The ...

When you see this primate's nose, you know you're in Borneo, where efforts are underway to restore its habitat ...

The fisher is a sleek, dark-furred mammal from the weasel family. It primarily lives in North American forests. Despite the name, fishers don't actually catch fish. They hunt small mammals, birds and ...

A Nature study analyzing a Sahelanthropus tchadensis femur suggests regular bipedal walking around 7 million years ago, while forearm bones indicate continued tree climbing. The research compares ...

Despite their name, tree hyraxes — small, furry, nocturnal African mammals — don’t always live in trees. In Tanzania’s Pare mountains, near the border with Kenya, they’ve adapted to life on steep ...

Which tree stand is best? Since many animals don’t spend a lot of time looking up, a tree stand gives hunters an advantage to watch for prey from above. Tree stands are quiet and provide an adjustable ...

Long gone are the days when items sold at the dollar store cost, well, a dollar. >> Business opening or closing in your neighborhood? Email the reporter at vnocera@oregonian.com. Dollar Tree — which ...