If You Could Have Any Animal Feature, What Would It Be?
What do you know about elephants and their trunks?Watch the nine-second video embedded above of Kelly, a 34-year-old female African elephant at the Zoo Atlanta, using suction to grab a tortilla chip.Impressed? Does it make you wish you had a trunk?In “Elephant Trunks: Is There Anything They Can’t Do?” Richard Sima writes about a new…
A Biologist, an Outlandish Stork and the Army of Women Trying to Save It
Life can change in an instant, as I experienced when I first laid my eyes on a tall and bizarrely striking bird known as the greater adjutant.It was India in 2018, in the northeastern state of Assam. I’d ended up there partly because of absurd circumstances, which involved being filmed for a reality television pilot…
Lessons From Animals
Students in U.S. high schools can get free digital access to The New York Times until Sept. 2021.Blair Braverman is a musher — the human driver of a dog sled team. She writes that she is learning from her dogs how to navigate the “endurance challenge” that is the pandemic. Here is one thing her…
