THE DESCENT OF MAN: Animal suffering and the civilizing process
ADRIANNA KAPEK-GOODRICH: Can humanity consider itself civilised when analysing people’s attitudes to non-human animals? This question is…
STRANGE Personalities: A new approach that could help scientists better understand animal behavior
ELIZABETH PRESTON: Scientists are increasingly realizing that animals, like people, are individuals. They have distinct tendencies, habits and life…
OF HUMAN BONDAGE: After more than 50 years, Miami Seaquarium to announce plan to return whale Lolita to ‘home waters’
BRIAN HAMACHER: More than 50 years after she was captured in the Pacific Ocean, the Miami Seaquarium's killer whale Lolita may finally be heading…
TERRIBLE INJUSTICE: Truck driver who killed animal rights activist gets off with $2k fine
KIMIA AFSHAR MEHRABI: The truck driver who caused the death of 65-year-old animal rights activist Regan Russell in 2020 has pled guilty to careless…
Karen Davis: False equivalencies between humans and other animals
KAREN DAVIS: Temple Grandin is an animal science professor at Colorado State University and a consultant to the meat industry. Catherine Johnson…
REPORT TO THE COMMISSIONERS: ‘No Animal Left Behind – The Grim Reality of Industrial Animal Farming’
EUROGROUP FOR ANIMALS: The European Union recognises farmed animals as sentient beings. This means it recognises they are individuals with intrinsic…
‘Domestication Syndrome’: Why do animals living with humans evolve similar features?
BEN THOMAS GLEESON: Charles Darwin was one of the first to notice something interesting about domesticated animals: different species often…
‘A Living Hell’: Scientists call for the world’s first octopus farm to be shut down
COLIN FERNANDEZ: Plans for the world's first commercial octopus farm should be scrapped on grounds of cruelty, according to campaigners. Details of…
HIGH ON LIFE: Research shows great apes alter their mental states by spinning rapidly
MARC BEKOFF: A recent open-access research paper published in the journal Primates by... Adriano Lameira and Marcus Perlman analyzed 40 YouTube…
CASE STUDY: Learning from the landmark SHAC animal rights campaign
TRENT DAVIDSON: While social movements are often grounded in activism, no two campaigns are alike. Furthermore, most campaigns go through a number…