A biologist has shown that bastard doves can fend for themselves. Despite having a strange coo, hybrid offspring are still able to defend their territory. This is necessary for further reproduction.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — Meet George, the ring-necked dove. George lives at the Dickerson Park Zoo and is one of the many animals that participate in the zoo’s educational programs. Ring-necked doves are ...

Barbara Gipson’s up to her ears in the sound of male ring-necked doves flirting. While she says their crooning is actually a calming refrain around the Virginia Beach Society for the Prevention of ...

EMERGING PEST?: Ring-necked dove. Ring-necked doves, a scourge of agricultural crops in some parts of the world, should be banned in New Zealand before they become a problem, says Hamilton ...

How species are formed and how species remain separate are crucial questions in evolutionary biology. The offspring of crosses between different animal species are often infertile or die when still in ...