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 ...

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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Bestselling author Eliot Schrefer's new book, Queer Ducks (and Other Animals): The Natural World of Animal Sexuality is a winner in many different ways. Among the numerous accolades for this young ...

I've long been interested in the evolution of human-nonhuman (animal) relationships and reading award-winning nature writer Keggie Carew's newest book Beastly: The 40,000-Year Story of Animals and Us ...

This is not your grandmother’s “A is for Aardvark” catalog of the world’s animals. Simon Barnes’ A History of the World in 100 Animals is a look at 100 animal species and taxa that have helped shaped ...

This is viewer supported news. Please do your part today. The Atlantic’s science writer Ed Yong, who won the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for his coverage of the pandemic, joins us to ...

In the first of our new series, the award-winning science journalist joins us to discuss his book An Immense World. In the first episode of our new series Nature hits the books, science journalist Ed ...

This is FRESH AIR. I'm David Bianculli, professor of television studies at Rowan University, in for Terry Gross. After winning the Pulitzer Prize for his reporting for Atlantic magazine on the first ...

US JUST HOW A SHELTER IS HOPEFUL AND LOVING. THE OLD SAYING GOES, A SHELTER IS A SAFE PLACE. THERE IS NO FRIEND AS LOYAL AS A BOOK. A SHELTER PROVIDES FOOD, WATER AND MEDICAL CARE EXCEPT FOR MAYBE A ...