He can handle both comedy and drama with aplomb and is always ready for a fight, a shootout, even a dance sequence. He’s a descendant of an Olympian, never complains and is always prepared to work.

WASHINGTON – Loren Brey, a poultry grower in Minnesota, walked onto the farm where his egg-laying turkeys nest in November to discover a handful of hens dead from the highly pathogenic avian flu.

MEDFORD — A rancher in Jackson County who has had gray wolves eat his livestock is now using a lime-green inflatable dancing man to keep the predators at bay. Ted Birdseye began using the contraption ...

You know those tube-shaped inflatable guys that dance around all wacky, with a convulsing body and waving arms? They’ve become omnipresent in the urban landscape, from used car lots to pawn shops. And ...

“When you have sound, the dingoes will flinch. They’re a bit nervous but they don’t run away. But the wavy man, boy, they bolted," animal behavior researcher Bradley Smith tells Science magazine.

We've all seen them. Those giant blow-up dancer things that they have at car dealerships that dance around in the wind. Now it's never been clear to me why exactly a giant, creepy dancing thing is ...

Some poultry growers are turning to innovative tactics to protect their flocks, deploying deterrents like drones, air horns, balloons and decoy predators. By Linda Qiu Reporting from Washington Loren ...

MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) — A rancher in Jackson County who has had gray wolves eat his livestock is now using a lime-green inflatable dancing man to keep the predators at bay. Ted Birdseye began using the ...