The U.S.’s Endangered Species Act (ESA) protects endangered animals and their habitats. It is, unfortunately, dependent on money and legislation, meaning that there is no guarantee that these species ...

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 ...

We’ve all seen the signs outside stores and restaurants: Service animals only, no pets. So what’s the difference between an average pet and a service animal? We’ve got all the important info for you.

Gabfest Reads is a monthly series from the hosts of Slate’s Political Gabfest podcast. Recently, Emily Bazelon talked with Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy about their new book, Our Kindred Creatures: How ...

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.

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 ...

Books about writers’ dogs and cats are a literary staple. Now there’s a booming subset of memoirs about writers’ relationships with less domestic creatures. By Alexandra Alter Alexandra Alter’s ...