The debate about whether (and, if so, how) animals think is an ancient one. Aristotle considered it important enough to write on the question extensively, and it’s a safe bet people were ...

Eva Meijer's new book is a fascinating, profoundly original, and important read about new ways of doing democratic politics ...

Learn more about the tendency to anthropomorphize animals, which is a more common tendency in some people than in others, in part thanks to these potentially conservation-aiding traits.

Joanne Lefson, who has studied the mindset behind animal art, offers a deep dive into how and why animals paint and what their creative and aesthetic senses might look like.

Thinking about death in animals, how they cope with it, how they live with this reality, can help us to understand that death is not something unfair that happens to us.