Author, ethologist and biologist Dr. Jonathan Balcombe is breaking new ground in our understanding of and appreciation for animals. For many, Second Nature, his last book, was their first introduction READ ON
Farm Animal Intelligence
Animal, Vegetable, Science, Ethics: Interview with Jonathan Balcombe
Paradise Lost: The Holocaust of the Birds
When I see the transit cars on the freight trains that haul live chickens packed in hundreds of small crates, stacked several stories high and side by side, I think READ ON
The Moral Lives of Animals: Exclusive Interview with Author Dale Peterson
In the study of animal behavior and intelligence, Jane Goodall may be the first name that comes to mind, but author and researcher Dale Peterson is no less important in READ ON
The Chicken Chronicles Part I: ‘You Reap What You Sow’
While researchers test for evidence of intelligence in animals and scientists testify in front of USDA panels about the capacity of animals to think or feel, I’ve been doing some READ ON
New Scientific Discoveries of Fish Raise Looming Ethical Questions
It’s worth mentioning that the study of animal neurobiology, cognition and behavior is in its infancy. That means much of what we based our understanding of animal intelligence on up READ ON
Sheep Much More Intelligent Than Assumed
Researchers at the University of Cambridge put Welsh mountain sheep through a battery of tests and concluded that the animals — generally not believed to be very smart — are READ ON
New Discoveries in Animal Intelligence are Revealed in Jonathan Balcombe’s Book Second Nature
“There is an enormous disconnect between what we now know of animals’ experiences of their lives, and how we treat them as a whole (most notably as in factory farms READ ON
