Animals & Society

Animals have shaped the cultural and economic life of Glasgow through the ages, and many statues and other memorials around the city honour the rol...

An international bestseller, the joys and challenges of a life dedicated to conservation are vividly described in The Elephants of Thula Thula by F...

Jared Diamond and other leading scholars have argued that the domestication of animals for food, labor, and tools of war has advanced the developme...

Over a century ago, Rilke went to the Jardin des Plantes in Paris, where he watched a pair of flamingos. A flock of other birds screeched by, and, ...

As ancient creatures that once shared the Earth with dinosaurs, turtles have played a crucial role in maintaining healthy terrestrial and marine ec...

The animality of human beings is completely unknown. Being human means to be something other than an animal, to not be an animal. Felice Cimatti, w...

The pigeon is the quintessential city bird. Domesticated thousands of years ago as a messenger and a source of food, its presence on our sidewalks ...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Hope, as Emily Dickinson famously wrote,...

In THE URBAN BESTIARY, acclaimed nature writer Lyanda Lynn Haupt journeys into the heart of the everyday wild, where coyotes, raccoons, chickens, h...

Hippos are well-loved, cumbersome, rotund mammals famous for lounging around semi-submerged in muddy pools. Gregarious herbivores, they emerge afte...

Bats have been misunderstood and maligned in the West for centuries. Unfair associations with demons have seen their leathery wings adorn numerous ...

The leopard is the ultimate cat. It makes the lion and the tiger appear overblown and all the other members of the cat family look puny. Whereas li...

IWM holds approximately 11 million photographs in its archives, covering the causes, course and consequences of modern conflict from the First Wor...

Over the past thirty years, as Wesley J. Smith details in his latest book, the concept of animal rights has been seeping into the very bone marrow ...

A light-hearted look at art through canine eyes. Join dachshunds Ned and Henry for an energetic romp through the ...

The relationship between humans and animals has always been strong, symbiotic and complicated. Animals, real and fictional, have been a mainstay...

Buck, a loving and docile St. Bernard mix becomes forcibly changed when he is nabbed from his home in sunny California and sold into service as an ...

A major revision of animal rights bible Striking at the Roots, referencing changes from the last 10 years including the rise of social media, which...

When shocking images emerged of Anne, Britain's last circus elephant, being beaten by one of her keepers, it sparked a national outcry. Undercover ...