But perhaps, in a world older and more complete than ours, there is a love that does not demand a reciprocal debt of need.
Cambodia is the most heavily mined country on earth, with 4 to 8 million land mines, according to one estimate.
Dian Fossey and Biruté Galdikas modeled their approach on Jane Goodall’s: they began their studies by relinquishing control. In the masculine world of Western science, where achievement is typically m...
A far worse mistake than misreading an animal's emotions is to assume the animal hasn't any emotions at all.
A giant Pacific octopus—the largest of the world’s 250 or so octopus species—can easily overpower a person. Just one of a big male’s three-inch-diameter suckers can lift 30 pounds, and a giant Pacific...
There is another important difference as well. Human eyes have three visual pigments, allowing us to see color. Octopuses have only one—which would make these masters of camouflage, commanding a glitt...
The idea of universal consciousness suffuses both Western and Eastern thought and philosophy, from the collective unconscious of psychologist Carl Jung, to unified field theory, to the investigations...
And that was part of the tragedy: I had just started to know her. I was mourning the relationship that could have blossomed but didn’t have a chance to grow.
Assessing the mind of a creature this alien demands that we be extraordinary flexible in our own thinking. Marine biologist James Wood suggests our hubris gets in our way.
Watching a pig eat is the ultimate vicarious thrill. Seldom can you take such pleasure in another’s joy. Here is someone following his bliss. Pigs are quite literally made for eating—they were bred to...
The Buddha denied the existence of persisting selves. At the end of life, the self may dissolve into eternity like salt in the ocean. To some, this might seem distressing. But to lose the lonely self...
Perhaps an even more surprising case was reported in June 2012, when a security officer at California’s Monterey Bay Aquarium found a banana peel on the floor in front of the Shale Reef exhibit at 3 a...
Isn’t this what we want to know about those whom we care about? What is it like, we wonder at each meeting, in shared meals and secrets and silences, with each touch and glance, to be you?
Reverie. To share such a moment of deep tranquility with another being, especially one as different from us as the octopus, is a humbling privilege.
Not to hurt our humble brethren is our first duty to them, but to stop there is not enough. We have a higher mission: to be of service to them whenever they require it.
Most animals on this planet live in the ocean. And most of them are invertebrates.
One of the most heartbreaking conditions of life on Earth is that most of the animals we love... die so long before we do.
Laos is saddled with the distinction of one superlative: it is the most heavily bombed country on earth. During the nine-year secret war against the Communists, during the Vietnam War, the U. S. dropp...
There was a tank of special flounder about fifteen feet away from the octopus tank, he said. The fish were part of a study. But to the researchers’ dismay, the flounder started disappearing, one by on...
Wholeness feels like gratitude. Gratitude that we are safe and happy and together.
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