What Is Our Responsibility to Lab Animals?
Standard ethical guidelines encourage minimizing the use of, and harm to, animals in research. Is that enough?
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…
What Memorable Animals Have You Seen in the Wild?
A sea lion whose size has earned him the nickname Chonkers has become a sensation at a popular tourist spot in San Francisco. Are you bonkers for Chonkers?
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…
