I've followed Dr. Clive Phillips' wide-ranging career and his eclectic transdisciplinary views of animal welfare and animal-human relationships. Clive was Australia's first professor of animal welfare ...

Humans have climbed to the top of the food chain by skillfully hunting, trapping, and fishing for other animals at scales that far exceed other predators, altering how the animals behave and earning ...

Artificial general intelligence (AGI) is slated to be a universal animal language translator, thus you can speak with your favorite pet, such as a lovable dog. In today’s column, I explore a touted ...

There is no shortage of tools marketed to improve human well-being. Medications, nutritional frameworks, psychotherapy models, performance systems, and behavioral theories all reflect a sustained ...

Hunting is considered critical to human evolution by many researchers who believe that several characteristics that distinguish humans from our closest living relatives, the apes, may have partly ...

“Cats bond with people, but they do it on their own terms,” Pethandlahalli says. “Some attach quickly, and others take their ...

There are few things more joyful, if occasionally nerve-wracking, than having a pet in your home. And plenty of people agree. According to the American Pet Products Association, around 94 million ...

For some years, I’ve been interested in the Marxist concepts of base and superstructure —  specifically what they suggest is ...

Scientists once assumed that evolution would eventually force every member of a species to behave in more or less the same ...