Animals

Spoiler(s): The Dog Does Die at the End, a Reading List

E.B. Bartels Recommends Annie Hartnett, Sy Montgomery, Kira Jane Buxton, and More

 
By E.B. Bartels  October 19, 2022
Animals

How to Dive with Octopuses from 5,000 Miles Away: An Unlikely Craft Essay

By Ray Nayler  October 4, 2022
Animals

What Makes Spiders So Terribly Scary to Human Beings?

By Kate Summerscale  September 28, 2022
Animals

Instinct vs. Insight: How Much Foresight Do Animals Have?

By Thomas Suddendorf, Jonathan Redshaw, and Adam Bulley  September 22, 2022
Animals

On Wildness and Communication: Exploring the Inner Lives of Animals in Fiction

By Talia Lakshmi Kolluri  September 8, 2022
Animals

Law of the Tongue: When Humans and Killer Whales Hunt Together

By Tom Mustill  September 7, 2022
Animals

What Does Animal Grief Tell Us About How They Understand Death?

By Justin Gregg  August 10, 2022
Animals

Smarter Than We Think: A Reading List on Animal Intelligence

By Ned Beauman  July 29, 2022
Animals

On Finding Solace Among Nature’s Gentlest of Giants, the Gray Whale

By Doreen Cunningham  July 14, 2022
Animals

What Animals Can Show Us About More Meaningfully Encountering the Wider World

By Sy Montgomery  May 2, 2022
Animals

How David George Haskell Decodes the Sounds of Our Natural World

By David George Haskell  March 10, 2022
Animals

Worlds Unseen and Unimagined: On Learning About Human Senses Through the Animal Kingdom

By Jackie Higgins  February 28, 2022
Animals

Books That Showcase the Bond Between Horses and Riders

By Mimi Matthews  January 14, 2022
Animals

What I Learned About Myself and the Natural World by Swimming with Sharks

By Ross Frylinck  November 19, 2021
Animals

The Helpful—and Harmful—Consequences of Aesop’s Animal Depictions

By Jo Wimpenny  November 3, 2021
Animals

How One Unexpected Phone Call Led to the Rescue of the Last Diving Horse in America

By Cynthia A. Branigan  October 19, 2021
Animals

Susan Orlean: “Is It Possible to Be Truly Wild?”

By Ann Leary  October 12, 2021
Animals

What Will Happen to the Snow Leopard of the Himalayas?

By William deBuys  August 19, 2021
Animals

Soccer-Playing Bees? Elephant Joy? What Animals Feel

By Henry Mance  July 15, 2021
Animals

The Gateway to Friendship: How and—Why—I Befriended a Wild Fox

By Catherine Raven  July 6, 2021
Animals

Hebe Uhart: A Brief Account of the Zoos I Cannot Forget

By Hebe Uhart  June 25, 2021
Animals

The Cartography of Wolves

By Tony Hiss  April 22, 2021
Animals

How Animal Intelligence Helps Us Speculate About the
Alien Mind

By Arik Kershenbaum  March 31, 2021
Animals

Saving Nora: What It’s Like to Operate on a 500-Pound Polar Bear

By Kale Williams  March 19, 2021
Animals

What It’s Like to Teach a
Magpie How to Fly

By Charlie Gilmour  January 5, 2021
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