Captive elephants exhibit what biologists refer to as stereotypy, which includes rhythmic rocking, head bobbing, stepping back and forth, and pacing...

Collard investigates the multibillion-dollar global exotic pet trade....

Why are we destroying the planet?

At the book’s center is a neglected treasure of the late Renaissance: the Four Elements manuscripts of Joris Hoefnagel (1542–1600)...

Guenther takes us inside one of the country's highest-intake animal shelters....

An interview with Judith Benz-Schwarzburg

A compelling argument that the time has come to use what we know about the fascinating and diverse inner lives of other animals on their behalf.

The founder and president of PETA, Ingrid Newkirk, and bestselling author Gene Stone explore the wonders of animal life and offer tools for living more kindly toward them....

Based on extensive field research, the book explores the meaning and use of over 500 animal metaphors employed by the Nage...

In Gilded Age America, people and animals lived cheek-by-jowl in environments that were dirty and dangerous to man and animal alike...

An interview with Christopher Ketcham

de Waal offers a fascinating exploration of the rich emotional lives of animals,,.

Some people insist that culture is strictly a human accomplishment. What are those people afraid of?

A life shared with pets brings many emotions....

What makes song sparrows, Verdi, medieval monks, and minstrelsy part of the same taxonomy?

An interview with Candace C. Croney

Do nonhuman animals have phenomenally conscious mental states?

Barnard explores the more-than-human entanglements between empires and the creatures they govern...

Why do Americans eat so much beef?

Alizart offers us a surprising new portrait of the dog as thinker―a thinker who may perhaps know the true secret of our humanity...

Gagné explores how relations of reciprocity between land, humans, animals, and glaciers foster an ethics of care in the Himalayan communities of Ladakh...

Barstow explores the tension between Buddhist ethics and Tibetan cultural norms to offer a novel perspective on the spiritual and social dimensions of meat eating...

Why do we put other animals in the various categories we do, and treat them in the various good and bad ways that we do?

Animal Intimacies is a path paving work that combines theoretical innovation and playfulness, ethnographic depth, and profound attunement to capturing the aspirations and tragedies of everyday life through the art of narrative...

Peter Sahlins’s 1668: The Year of the Animal in France (Zone Books, 2017) is a captivating look at the role of animals in court and salon culture in the first decades of Louis XIV’s reign in France.  Focusing on the years in and around 1668,