‘How to Be Animal’: The pitfalls of denying our animal nature
MARK MATOUSEK: There is a resistance to looking at evolutionary origins of our morality and ethics. Our morality is constrained by the fact that we…
HIGH TECH, LOW LIVES: Is ‘smart farming’ making life worse for farmed animals?
KAREN ASP: Trapping virtual reality (VR) headsets on cows might seem like something you’d see only in a Saturday Night Live skit. Yet, as they say,…
HUNTER GAMES: How killing wildlife in the United States became a ‘game’
RENE EBERSOLE: The United States is the only country in the world where wild animals are killed by the tens of thousands strictly for prizes and…
‘COUNTING ON US’: Why do so many animals have the ability to do math?
MARC BEKOFF: Many animals seem to have inherent mathematical abilities. Virtually all creatures possess an inherent mathematical mechanism called…
FREE SPEECH FOR FREEDOM: U.S. Supreme Court strikes down Ag-Gag law, allows undercover investigations of factory farms
ALDF: In a major victory for animals, workers, and transparency in the animal agriculture industry, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review a…
STUDY: Effective advocacy for animals through protest
JAMES OZDEN & SAM GLOVER: Many animal advocacy groups use protest as a way of gaining media coverage and drawing attention to the plight of…
INVESTIGATION: Footage reveals industry-funded research of cruel methods used to suffocate millions of farmed animals
ANIMAL OUTLOOK: Recently obtained public records — including research protocols, photographs and approximately 10 hours of video footage — from…
‘She Doesn’t Know How to Turn Left’: A blind beagle’s rescue reveals the dark secrets of the biomedical industry
WAYNE HSIUNG: Beagles, as a rule, are gentle creatures. But this gentleness has surprising power. I saw this firsthand when growing up... On so many…
Cooperation in Animals: From ants to rats to clusterflocks
MARC BEKOFF: Ashley Ward is the author of a new book called “The Social Lives of Animals.” The book aims to communicate Ward’s enthusiasm for the…
LIVES ‘UP IN SMOKE’: New report exposes cruel cannabis and ‘vape’ animal experiments in violation of law
GABE KAMINSKY: Federal grant recipients broke the law while spending an estimated $246 million in taxpayer dollars for cannabis and e-cigarette…