What exactly is a family? Even more profoundly, why is a family? Entire wings of the literary canon have confronted these questions, usually by framing them within the context of human families only.

At its worst, a nonfiction science book about animal sexuality could read like a dry biology textbook. But that's not the kind of book Eliot Schrefer wrote. His book, called "Queer Ducks (And Other ...

Trust me. This is going to be a rave review for a new book about animal-human communication by naturalist, filmmaker, and writer Tom Mustill. But first .... I read a lot of pop-sci books about animal ...

Senior Lecturer in Digital Ethics, Centre for AI and Digital Ethics, School of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne The pigs’ suffering was not an aberration; it is what ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Aimee Nezhukumatathil METAZOA Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind By Peter Godfrey-Smith One of ...

For Jeffrey Kluger’s feature on animal grieving in this week’s issue, TIME reached out to noted animal photographer Charlotte Dumas, who has been making deeply empathetic portraits of a variety of ...

Wild Tunes connects shelters like Anti-Cruelty with volunteer musicians of all backgrounds and levels of experience.

Every year, hundreds of racehorses break one of the myriad bones in their lower legs while training or competing in races, meaning that they must be euthanized. Although it’s a relatively tiny ...