Shankland's award-winning interdisciplinary book examines our dominance of and affection for animals and how empathy toward ...

Detailed interdisciplinary research clearly shows that our own well-being, that of nonhuman animals (animals), and that of our magnificent planet—land, water, and air—are tightly linked. In his ...

Zoologist Arik Kershenbaum has spent his career studying animals and how they communicate in the wild. In his book Why Animals Talk: The New Science of Animal Communication, Arik takes a deep dive ...

‘Second Nature’ Director on the Science Behind Queerness in the Animal Kingdom After holding the documentary’s world premiere at NewFest 37, Drew Denny discusses how a 20-year-old book and ...

People of all ages rely on their pets for a serotonin boost, whether they’re throwing a ball for their dog, petting their cat or talking to their fish after a long day. Nancy Edwards, professor and ...

Museums are strange things, Jack Ashby, assistant director of the University Museum of Zoology in Cambridge, UK, points out in his new book, Nature’s Memory: Behind the scenes at the world’s natural ...

Books about writers’ dogs and cats are a literary staple. Now there’s a booming subset of memoirs about writers’ relationships with less domestic creatures. By Alexandra Alter Alexandra Alter’s ...