An animal rights organization wants a New York court to grant Happy the elephant legal personhood. But what would that mean? Happy, an Asian elephant at the Bronx Zoo, is at the center of a legal ...

Spirit animals are our guides in life, directing us in the right direction and teaching us lessons along the way. They bring awareness to our inner self and allow us to walk through the course without ...

Picture an “animal” in your mind right now. What does it look like? A dog? A lion? Maybe a sloth, pangolin, naked mole-rat, or even just a human? There’s a good chance that you imagined a mammal, ...

Research shows cows are bright and emotional and pigs are intelligent, emotional, and cognitively complex "...the question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? but, Can they suffer? Why should ...

UC Davis Veterinary Medicine students share a moment with their canine friends during a break outside Scrubs Cafe on May 3, 2023. (UC Davis) Considering a career working with animals? While the most ...

Aleisha Brown is a young writer from Perth, Western Australia. She developed her literary skills through a Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing + Professional Writing and Publishing from Curtin ...

A dog gives a protective bark, sensing a nearby stranger. A cat slinks by disdainfully, ignoring anyone and everyone. A cow moos in contentment, chewing its cud. At least, that’s what we may think ...

Animals need more freedom with a capital "F": Taller and larger cages and other welfare modifications don't do enough "When all is said and done, the only adequate moral response to vivisection is ...

Why major in animal science? Be part of solving one of humanity’s most critical grand challenges – the global demand for food and fiber. With the population expected to grow by 2.3 billion by 2050, ...

We try to figure out what that “average” animal would really look like. Picture an “animal” in your mind right now. What does it look like? A dog? A lion? Maybe a sloth, pangolin, naked mole-rat, or ...