Animals & Society

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 ...

With a new introduction by the author Some thousands of years ago, the world was home to an immense variety of large mammals. From wooly mammoths...

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...

Ten animals  nine non-human and one human take you on ten journeys, where, in each case, an animal in need of rescue overcomes their issues and go...

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 ...

Livestock's Longer Shadow is one the most important books of its kind since Ruth Harrison's Animal Machines (1964). Most people have little idea ho...

Lucid, informed and persuasive Evening Standard Thought-provoking Daily Mail An extraordinary book Nicholas Evans, author of The Horse Whisperer ...

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...

Beginning with the very origins of life on Earth, Woolfson considers pre-historic human-animal interaction and traces the millennia-long evolution ...

''Wondering and wonderful. The nature book of the year.'' JOHN LEWIS-STEMPEL''This lovely book is almost as thrilling as the bird''s immortal song ...

A compelling, funny, first-hand account of Australia''s wonderfully unique mammals and how our perceptions impact their future. ...