Abused, Tortured and Murdered: A dog’s life in animal research
MAYA TRABULSI: Today, Moritz and Theo are two healthy and happy beagles living with their adoring owners, Sarah and Mike Klitzing. But their lives…
STUDY: Monkeys look for patterns that aren’t there, just like humans do
DAN ROBITZSKI: Faced with an impossible puzzle, lab monkeys in a recent experiment showed unflappable resolve: They continued to guess what they…
‘Lions, Bones and Bullets’: Wildlife documentary shocks South African parliamentarians during screening
IOL: Parliamentarians were left stunned after attending the screening of a new wildlife documentary, “Lions, Bones and Bullets”... The feature…
Marc Bekoff: Are chimps and dogs more sentient than rats and hamsters?
MARC BEKOFF: In an email a few weeks ago, 13-year-old Marta asked me: Are chimps and dogs more sentient than rats and hamsters? Is my dog Harry more…
THE SACRED AND THE PROFANE: Western ‘naturalism’ disrespects nonhuman animals and the entire natural world
BAPTISTE MORIZOT: Imagine a people approaching a land populated by a myriad of other related peoples, and declaring that they don’t really exist,…
Hold Still: Physical restraint in caring for companion animals
JESSICA PIERCE: A central feature in our lives with companion animals is the use of force. Instances of physical restraint in the home are…
‘Throw Away Monkeys’: Inside the cruel macaque trade
CLAIRE COLLEY: The macaque panics frantically, trying to escape the net, then cowers down, trapped and frozen in fear. She’s pinned to the ground by…
David M. Peña-Guzmán: Imagination, consciousness and animal dreams
DAVID M. PENA-GUZMAN: There is an entry in Voltaire’s Dictionnaire Philosophique devoted to dreams... Voltaire attributes this aura of mystery that…
Film ‘Saving Dinah: For the Love of Animals’ streaming online for free
ANIMAL ALLIANCE OF CANADA: Millions of us share our lives with companion animals. Half the households in North America and Europe share their homes…
‘If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal’: What animal intelligence reveals about human stupidity
RACHEL NUWER: The German philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was, by all accounts, a miserable human being. He famously sought meaning through…