The Neural Cruelty of Captivity: Keeping animals in stressful captive environments damages their brain
BOB JACOBS: Hanako, a female Asian elephant, lived in a tiny concrete enclosure at Japan’s Inokashira Park Zoo for more than 60 years, often in…
IN COLD BLOOD: Chimpanzee escapes from Athens Zoo, shot dead
ANNA WICHMANN: A male chimpanzee was shot dead after escaping from its enclosure at the Attica Zoological Park, which is located just outside of…
‘The Floating Peanut’: Great apes use water as a tool
JULIANE BRAUER: When I give talks about the outstanding cognitive skills in the animal kingdom, I always mention the orangutans... These intelligent…
‘Ways of Being’: Humans aren’t the smartest among earth’s diverse intelligences
MARC BEKOFF: One of the most original, wide-ranging, and thought-provoking books I’ve seen in a while is called Ways of Being: Animals, Plants,…
Gary L. Francione: Why morality requires veganism; the case against owning animals
GARY L. FRANCIONE: Before the 19th century, at least in the West, animals were largely excluded from the moral and legal community. They were…
Kathryn Parsons: Why Veganism Should Be Apolitical
KATHRYN PARSONS: In recent years, veganism as a phenomenon has accelerated its growth as a movement with tangible changes in society, on our high…
Jordi Casamitjana: The Politics of Veganism
JORDI CASAMITJANA: One of the good things about the term vegan becoming more well-known and used in mainstream society is that we now have more…
SEIZE AND RESIST: British police harass 101-year-old animal rights patron, search home for ‘stolen’ beagles
JOHN ELWORTHY: The home of animal loving 101-year-old Ron Green, patron of Camp Beagle, was visited by police hunting for five beagles taken from…
Death and Cruelty on the High Seas: Livestock shipping strikes again; 15100 sheep drown in the Red Sea
GREG MILLER: Decade after decade, vessel casualties and reports of animal cruelty keep piling up. Yet another major accident occurred this month: On…
When Animals Dream: The Hidden World of Animal Consciousness
MARC BEKOFF: David M. Peña-Guzmán new book, When Animals Dream: The Hidden World of Animal Consciousness, is a very important work that closes the…