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Medieval manuscripts are littered with images of cats – sharing their owner’s dinner, keeping them company, and even cosplaying as nuns.
Indigenous views and ways of knowing should be applied to the way we keep, use, and kill animals, and in how we teach future generations about animal use and their care.
The death of a pet can be a deeply painful experience. But acknowledging the way pet grief is different can help people find consolation.
We hear a lot about how humans eating meat is bad for the planet. But if every animal only ate plants, Earth would look dramatically different.
Guidelines and regulations weigh the medical and health benefits of animal research with researchers’ ability to ensure humane care of their subjects from start to finish.
Changing habitat ranges, competition for food and water, and biological effects of climate change all pose threats to wildlife.
Snails use their slime to help them move, stop them drying out and to scare off predators.
In this week’s episode of The Conversation Weekly, we speak with three scientists who study the ways plants and animals evolve in a world dominated by humans.
Narwhals, hummingbirds and the Asian sheepshead wrasse have opened scientists’ eyes to the complexity of nature.
Do you know zoopharmacognosy is? Some animals use trees to treat themselves.
Nature begins forming patterns at the molecular level – and sometimes they grow to enormous sizes.
Sophie Cunningham’s novel about Leonard Woolf and the contemporary writer attempting to tell his story is wry and earnest – and yes, devastating when it needs to be.
Science has some clues about whether or not your cat feels more than cupboard love for you.
Just about every creature on Earth needs to grab some Zs from time to time. Imagine trying to doze while dodging great whites and killer whales.
Dog bites are a serious public health problem but we’re going the wrong way about tackling it.
The public’s lack of knowledge about animal research can cause a moral conflict. Institutions that use animals in research need to be more transparent about their practices.
The monkeypox virus can easily spread between humans and animals. A veterinary virologist explains how the virus could go from people to wild animals in the US – and why that could be a problem.
An anthropologist explains some of the many ways animals use their tails, from balancing as they walk to attracting a mate.
Pigeons simply don’t deserve the bad press they get.
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Principal Lecturer in Wildlife Conservation, Nottingham Trent University
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Professor, Management and Organizational Studies, Huron University College, Western University
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Associate Professor, School of Animal and Veterinary Science, University of Adelaide
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Senior Lecturer in Animal Science, Nottingham Trent University
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Professor of Wildlife Conservation, University of Salford
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Visiting Research Fellow, Animal Behaviour and Welfare, Nottingham Trent University
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Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Biology, Adjunct Associate Professor of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology
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Associate Professor Emerita of Comparative Literature, University of California, San Diego
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Professor in Ecology, Charles Sturt University
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Professor, Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Assistant Director of the University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge, University of Cambridge
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Former Foundation Professor of Animal Welfare, University of Queensland, Curtin University
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Professor in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, School of Life & Environmental Sciences, Deakin University
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Professor in Modern History, University of York
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Animal Geographer, Keele University
