Why can't we stop anthropomorphizing our animal friends and foes? Illustration by Emily Lankiewicz / Orca image from Christopher Michel via Wikimedia Commons under CC-BY 2.0 / Bird and dolphin via ...

This post is in response to Puppies and Broken Hearts By Hal Herzog Ph.D. Discussions about "Why animals matter" are extremely important even when we're faced with global climate change and economic ...

Over the last decades, researchers who study animal behavior have succeeded in largely blurring the line between Homo sapiens and other animals. Like their human counterparts, animals feel emotions, ...

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Back in 1995, Susan Orlean, the New Yorker staff writer who would soon become a literary sensation for her book The Orchid Thief, set an unusual challenge for herself: writing a profile of Biff, a ...