There are some scientists who frown upon such practices, believing that nature should run its course, Jane wrote in an early chapter of The Chimpanzees of Gombe, a scholarly compilation of her first t...
The word compassion means with suffering. To have compassion is to willingly join in suffering—to show those you love that you will not let them suffer
His coming to you, and your loving him, was a counterbalance, in a way, to the world’s mistreatment of pigs,
As with a child, to commune with Athena demands a level of openness and intuition greater than that used in the usual discourse between adult humans of a common culture.
If you took the monsters' point of view, everything they did made perfect sense. The trick was learning to think like a monster.
Teachers are all around to help you: with four legs or two or eight or even none; some with internal skeletons, some without. All you have to do is recognize them as teachers and be ready to hear thei...
Hormones and neurotransmitters, the chemicals associated with human desire, fear, love, joy, and sadness, are highly conserved across taxa, Jennifer said. This means that whether you’re a person or a...
But what is the soul? Some say it is the self, the I that inhabits the body; without the soul, the body is like a lightbulb with no electricity. But it is more than the engine of life, say others; it...
The self, Blackmore writes, is just a fleeting impression that arises with each experience and fades away again. . . . There is no inner self, she argues, only multiple parallel processes that give ri...
Karma is choice.
For more than a year and a half, since meeting Athena, since coming to know Octavia and now Kali, each time I’ve reached into the tanks where we have brought these creatures into our world, I’ve longe...
Voles make up 85 percent of the diet. (One feature of vole biology that inadvertently helps out hawks is that these rodents mark their territories with urine, which Scandinavian researchers recently d...
At California’s Monterey Bay Aquarium found a banana peel on the floor in front of the Shale Reef exhibit at 3 a.m. On closer inspection, the banana peel turned out to be a healthy, fist-size red octo...
If the person was out of the room, the octopus would pull off the magnet on the inside of the tank which, with another magnet on the outside of the tank, held a glass-cleaning tool in place. The outsi...
Cambodia is the most heavily mined country on earth, with 4 to 8 million land mines, according to one estimate.
Love is the highest and best use of a life.
But perhaps, in a world older and more complete than ours, there is a love that does not demand a reciprocal debt of need.
They don’t want to hear how Octavia is different from us. They want to know how we’re the same. They know what it’s like to have an itch. They can imagine what it’s like to be a mother. This brief enc...
I’ve always harbored a fondness for monsters. Even as a child, I had rooted for Godzilla and King Kong instead of for the people trying to kill them. It had seemed to me that these monsters’ irritatio...
The bliss of stroking an octopus’s head is difficult to convey to most people, even to animal lovers.
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