In the early months of 2020, when the coronavirus pandemic emptied our streets, forced us into our homes and turned down the volume on our noisy outdoor lives, species that typically existed on the ...

Independent bookstores are the heartbeats of their communities. They provide culture and community, generate local jobs and sales tax revenue, promote literacy and education, champion and center ...

Jewish teachings give us plenty of guidance on how to treat animals. If you own animals, you are supposed to feed them before you feed yourself. It’s forbidden to eat the limb of a live animal. And ...

When you think of undomesticated animals, what words come to mind? Maybe it's wild or even vicious. For author Carol Gigliotti, the word is creative. In her book, "The Creative Lives Of Animals," she ...

I've always been interested in the words that are used to refer to the killing of nonhuman animals (animals), and why so many people object to calling it "murder." In an essay called "Murder, She Didn ...

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, ...

American society has a confused, contradictory relationship with animals. Many dog owners have no compunction about eating feedlot-raised pigs, animals whose intelligence, sociality, and sentience ...

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The New York Zoological Park shelters within its comfortable old Bronx plant the finest collections of animals in the world. Curator of Mammals & Reptiles and general head man at the zoo is Dr.

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Lydia Millet THE COUNCIL OF ANIMALS By Nick McDonell In my favorite childhood books, the animals ...