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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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."
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.
"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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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."
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.
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.