Are Insects Conscious?: The surprisingly sophisticated mind of an insect
CARRIE ARNOLD: A growing collection of new experiments is challenging the old consensus. Far from being six-legged automatons, insects can…
#FreeHappy: New York Court of Appeals hears historic case demanding personhood rights for Happy the elephant
MARISA IATI: Is an elephant legally a person? That’s the central question in a case that New York’s highest court considered Wednesday (May 18,…
‘BLOOD FARMS’: Iceland urged to ban cruel practice of extracting hormone from pregnant horses
ABBY YOUNG-POWELL: Iceland is under pressure to ban the production of a hormone extracted from pregnant horses, a practice that has been described…
‘BLOOD LIONS’: Report on captive lions reveal countless number of physical and mental problems
DON PINNOCK: In South Africa, up to 8,000 lions are being raised in nearly 400 commercial captive breeding facilities. Every now and then the NSPCA…
‘SLAY’: New documentary exposes animal cruelty in leather, fur, and wool industries
SOPHIE HIRSH: The new documentary SLAY aims to wake viewers up to the unethical ways the leather, fur, and wool industries treat animals, workers,…
Pampered pets or poor bastards?: The welfare of dogs kept as companion animals
IBEN MEYER: Over the past two centuries, the typical life of dogs has changed dramatically, especially in the Global North. Dogs have moved into…
‘Wonderdog’: Are we taming dogs, or are they taming us?
ZOE WILLIAMS: While you doubtless don’t need to be reminded of the aeons we’ve known dogs and loved them, zoology has had a tendency to neglect…
MONGER GAMES: VR technology could enable people to butcher animals from the “comfort” of home
HANNAH BUGGA: The animal agriculture publication Poultry World recently released an article about the benefits of using virtual-reality technology…
THE THING IS: New York Court of Appeals to consider animal personhood
ALEXANDRA ISFAHANI-HAMMOND: In her essay, “The Pandemic is a Portal”, Arundhati Roy conjectured that COVID-19 could ignite a reckoning. Was it…
STUDY: Head, body, eye coordination conserved across animal kingdom
MARIAH CHUPRINSKI: Fruit flies synchronize the movements of their heads and bodies to stabilize their vision and fly effectively, according to Penn…