Caught In The Crosshairs: Animals and Rhetoric During The Culture Wars
ROLAND VINCENT: 'Last January Ingrid Newkirk was scheduled to give a talk at Google, sponsored by Googlers for Animals. However, when Newkirk…
Animal Rights Group Revives Claim Seeking Elephants’ Release
ROBERT STORACE: 'A Florida-based animal rights group has filed a second habeas corpus petition on behalf of three elephants living in a Goshen…
Do Animals ‘Talk’ to Each Other? Yes, and They Take Turns Just like Humans
ARISTOS GEORGIOU: 'Language is perhaps the most distinctive of human traits, but its evolution remains a mystery. Our communication is underpinned…
Legal personhood for non-human animals (Part 2)
LINDA ROLAND DUNILL: 'One of the things that is implied in the refusal to grant personhood to non-human animals, in my view, is the strong aversion…
Feds Weigh Proposals To Ship Wild Horses Overseas
CHRIS D'ANGELO: 'The Bureau of Land Management is reviewing a pair of proposals to relocate wild horses from the western United States to Guyana and…
Legal personhood for non-human animals (Part 1)
LINDA ROLAND DANILL: 'The lawsuits initiated by the NhRP bring the focus to animals’ rights, rather than their welfare, as is generally the focus…
Sharks Possess Extraordinary Electrical ‘Sixth Sense’
BEN RENNER: 'Sharks are one of the most fearsome predators on the planet. Their bodies and their senses — from smell to sight to touch — are all…
Animal Rights Activists Face Multiple Felony Charges, Brought by Prosecutors With Ties to Smithfield Foods
GLENN GREENWALD: 'Six animal rights activists in California have been charged with multiple felony counts in two separate criminal cases brought by…
Bees May Understand Zero, a Concept That Took Humans Millennia to Grasp
KATE KELLER: 'Despite their sesame-seed-sized brains, honey bees have proven themselves the prodigies of the insect world. Researcher has found that…
Are feminists right to resist comparison with the females of other species?
KAREN DAVIS: 'The idea that humans are a vastly superior order of being, distinct from the rest of creation, pervades society despite Charles…