Animal Emotions

Do animals think and feel?

Marc Bekoff Ph.D.

What Wild Long-Lived Animals Tell Us About Human Longevity

Studies of wild animals who outlive us and remain healthy can help us understand how we can increase our lifespans and healthspans.

There's No Room for Tough Love With Dogs

If you're thinking about using tough love with your dog, don't. Mixed messages confuse them.

The Psychology of Breedism and the Politics of Dogs Revived

A landmark 1990 essay raises important questions about the mindset underlying the on-going production of dog breeds for human desires, rather than for a dog's quality of life.

The Welfare of Thailand's Captive Elephants and Their People

A new book explores the health of elephants used for tourism and entertainment, deforestation, and the lives of mahouts who work closely with these magnificent mammoths.

Feeding Animals Isn’t Always as Harmless as It Seems

A new book looks at what's at stake when we feed animals, including killing some animals to feed others and political and environmental concerns.

Is Human Intelligence a Liability or a Gift?

In If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal, Justin Gregg argues that human exceptionalism is a double-edged sword and our unique cognitive prowess has backfired with severe consequences.

The Psychology and Art of Positive "Do No Harm" Dog Training

Linda Michaels combines science with compassion and eloquently explains how to educate humans to respect dogs and honor what the dogs need and want to do.

The Minds of Dogs: Making Tools and Getting Old

Among the many questions that come my way are these popular queries: "Do dogs make tools?" and "What is it like for dogs to age?"

Mental Immunity: How and Why Animals Filter Misinformation

Animals must filter out "bad stuff," let in "good stuff," and combat "mind parasites."

Good Grief: The Importance of Loving Pets in Life and Death

E.B. Bartels takes us on a personal and global journey looking for "the good pet death" and concludes there is no best practice but to love them when they're here and gone.

The Subtleties of Power-Brokering Among Wild Animals

A new book carefully explains the importance, pervasiveness, and variability of power struggles in diverse species and dispels myths about how power is achieved and maintained.

Should We Be Making Lilac Dogs and Glowing Bunnies?

Jeff Campbell discusses how we're bioengineering a wide variety of hybrids, chimeras, and clones and what it means for us and the weird beasts we've created.

The State of the Art of Animal Welfare Science

Nonhumans need all the help they can get, and a comprehensive new book about the ever-growing transdisciplinary field of animal welfare science could provide some.

The Fascinating Complex Minds of Bees and Why They Matter

Research shows bees are profoundly intelligent emotional beings with distinct personalities who can count, use tools, recognize flowers and human faces, and have body awareness.

Why Blind Dogs Can Play Fetch, Find Toys, and Stay on Track

New research shows a never-before-known link between sight and smell in dogs' brains that explains why blind dogs can "see in the dark" and do things that amaze and inspire us.

Why Veterinary Education Needs Major Improvements

A new book offers candid behind-the-scenes, on-the-ground views of the inspiring joys and devastating challenges of becoming a veterinarian.

How Animals Sense the World Differently From Us

Personal Perspective: A new book explains how nonhumans live in their own sensory worlds and how, when we pay close attention, we can learn a lot about their hidden lives and ours.

Exploring a Fascinating Universe of Different Kinds of Minds

A fascinating, eye-opening book decenters humans from being the pinnacle of minded beings and stresses that "mindedness needn’t be a club with rigorously exclusive entry rules."

Queer Ducks and the Natural World of Animal Sexuality

A timely young adult book discusses research on same-sex sexual behavior among diverse animals, showing it's more common than many people think.

Why You Shouldn't Yank a Dog's Leash

Research shows dogs and humans suffer when a dog is pulled here and there.

Why Dogs May Bite, and How People Could Avoid It

Detailed analysis of videos preceding dog bites offers an understanding of what dogs and humans were doing and how to prevent them.

The Unknown Emotional and Physical Lives of Sport Horses

A riveting book and the French Parliament calling for an overhaul in horse welfare at the 2024 Olympics highlight how these sentient beings are routinely abused in sport.

Clever Dogs, Happy Cats, and Myths of Human Exceptionalism

"Much Like Us" argues there are numerous similarities between diverse nonhumans and us, and we must appreciate other animals for who they are, not only in comparison with us.

Humans Aren't the Smartest Among Earth's Diverse Intelligences

In a fascinating, wide-ranging book, James Bridle explains how the world is full of all sorts of other intelligences that are slowly revealing their complexity and agency.

How Animals Dream

A groundbreaking new book based on the latest behavioral and neuroscientific research explains the significance of animal dreams and shows we're not the only dreamers on Earth.

"Bitch" Repositions Female Animals to Where They Belong

Lucy Cooke decenters males, offers factual arguments against sexist science and cultural bias, and blows the cover off of misleading myths of males being the only show in town.

Trees Lower Medication Sales for Heart and Mood Disorders

New research in Brussels shows "both tree density and tree crown volume are inversely associated with medication sales for cardiovascular disease and mood disorders." Here's why.

Human Imprisonment, Animal Captivity, Social Justice, and Law

A new book called "Carceral Logics" explores "the complicated intersection of issues that arise in thinking about animal law, violence, mass incarceration, and social change."

The Science of Thinking and Feeling Like a Dog

Jules Howard's new book. written for a broad audience with a touch of history, shows what we really know about the cognitive and emotional lives of dogs—and much more.

Why New Zealand's Policy of Killing Animals Harms Children

An analysis of primary school curricula shows killing "pests" is encouraged, while there are deep concerns about the link between abusing nonhumans and harming humans.

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