There is an important new book out that you should read called Elephants On the Edge: What Animals Teach Us About Humanity by Gay Bradshaw. A psychologist, ecologist, and animal behaviorist, Bradshaw presents here a devastating portrait of the full-scale collapse of elephant culture and…

I paid a visit the other day to The Prospect Park Zoo, my local –  spent the better part of a Sunday afternoon there with the wallabies, and the prairie dogs, and the meerkats. The very names of the animals just invoked underscore how much the place has changed from the zoo I knew as a kid…

Hey, to find out why scientists are blindfolding squid go to an exceptionally cool site called, creaturecast.org, and check out their first feature video by one Sophia Tintori.