‘A Legacy of Shame’: New report reveals the horrific suffering of captive elephants in zoos
BORN FREE USA: International wildlife charity Born Free has today released a major new report revealing the true extent of the pain and suffering of…
Jeff Sebo: Against human exceptionalism
JEFF SEBO: This January, a 57-year-old man in Baltimore received a heart transplant from a pig. Xenotransplantation involves using nonhuman animals…
TURNING TABLES: The collapse of industrial farming
ROBERT HUNZIKER: Industrial farming, alongside global warming, ranks at the top of the list of existential risks this century. And, similar to the…
WAR CRIMES: The thousands of animals that are martyrs of the Donbass conflict in Ukraine
SPUTNIK INTERNATIONAL: The eight-year conflict in Ukraine has wrought terrible tragedy on the humans involved. But there is another group which has…
ALTERED TRAITS: Killings outside of Yellowstone Park changing fundamental aspects of wolf behavior
MIKE KOSHMRL: A recent spate of wolf killings just outside of Yellowstone National Park has altered fundamental aspects of the canines’ behavior,…
BALL OF CONFUSION: The problem with reducing ‘veganism’ to a lifestyle
OLGA ALEXANDRU: Merriam-Webster defines “lifestyle” as “the typical way of life of an individual, group, or culture.” By this definition, people who…
‘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…