The Inner Life of Animals: Love, Grief, and Compassion—Surprising Observations of a Hidden World
Peter Wohllebenamazon.com
The Inner Life of Animals: Love, Grief, and Compassion—Surprising Observations of a Hidden World
Perhaps because names are so crucial and personal, naming things can feel uniquely human. And until a little over a decade ago, scientists predominantly thought that was true. Then, in 2013, a study suggested that bottlenose dolphins use namelike calls. Scientists have since found evidence that parrots, and perhaps whales and bats, use calls that i... See more
Tove Danovich • Elephants Are Doing Something Deeply Human
The widely reported claim that vampire bats share blood meals with other bats who had previously shared with them turned out to be a case of kin selection (relatives sharing blood), not reciprocal altruism.
Jonathan Haidt • The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
Many researchers interested in understanding our cognitive evolution have focused their efforts on revealing whether our closest primate relatives and other obviously smart creatures like whales and dolphins are capable of purposeful behavior in the same way that humans are. Being purposeful requires an intuitive grasp of causality, the ability to ... See more
James Suzman • Work
“They move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear,” wrote the American naturalist Henry Beston. “They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and tr
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