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Animals and humans
What happened when one woman raised an abandoned squirrel as her own
8 minutes
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Animals and humans
Goodbye Pixel
Although it felt more like bereavement for a person than the loss of a thing, the death of a pet isn’t exactly like either
Julian Baggini
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Nature and landscape
Home and the birdsong
In the dark, sylvan villages of medieval England, people named places after the birds that filled the night with music
Michael J Warren
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Biology
To understand the limits of human senses, look to the wild world of animal cognition
45 minutes
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Evolution
Fortune favours the shrewd
Attaining and maintaining power lies at the heart of almost all animal societies. And it’s as devious as human politicking
Lee Alan Dugatkin
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Animals and humans
Happy the person
She has deep emotions, complex social needs and a large, elephant brain. Her legal personhood should be recognised too
Lori Marino
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Biology
Journey deep into the Philippine forest in search of the world’s largest, rarest eagle
95 minutes
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Animals and humans
Semiotics of dogs
In all its baroque and sometimes cruelly overbred forms, the dog is a paramount symbol of both human hopes and foibles
Katrina Gulliver
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Ecology and environmental sciences
Yo-Yo Ma performs a work for cello in the woods, accompanied by a birdsong chorus
4 minutes
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Sleep and dreams
The dreams of animals
The psychic lives of nonhuman dreamers reveal colours, harmonies and beauties of which we had little inkling until now
David M Peña-Guzmán
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Animals and humans
Freefall into darkness
Scientists study animals to illuminate human psychology. So why are we blind to the mental lives of our caged subjects?
Garet Lahvis
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Animals and humans
Against human exceptionalism
In a tight spot, you’d probably intuit that a human life outweighs an animal’s. There are good arguments why that’s wrong
Jeff Sebo
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Animals and humans
What the ancient city of Kars looks like from the perspective of its stray dogs
9 minutes
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Ethics
We must not own animals
We will never truly advance our ethical relationship with other animals until we stop treating them as chattels for use
Gary L Francione
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Ethics
Why you should eat meat
Not eating animals is wrong. If you care about animals, then the right thing to do is breed them, kill them and eat them
Nick Zangwill
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Animals and humans
Becoming a centaur
The horse is a prey animal, the human a predator. Our shared trust and athleticism is a neurobiological miracle
Janet Jones
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Nature and landscape
Honouring the caribou, in dreams and memories from an Innu singer-songwriter
5 minutes
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Animals and humans
An unflinching look at a provocative public dissection of a ‘surplus’ zoo lion
13 minutes
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Ecology and environmental sciences
Reweaving the wild
Human roads have utterly fragmented the world of wild animals but the engineering to reconnect the pieces is in our grasp
Darryl Jones
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Gender
Are men animals?
Diagnosing men as violent and oversexed beasts is tempting but it’s a regressive idea built on dubious analogies
Matthew Gutmann
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Evolution
Promethean beasts
Far from being hardwired to flee fire, some animals use it to their own ends, helping us understand our own pyrocognition
Ivo Jacobs
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Animals and humans
Familiarity breeds roach-respect, and even love, for a group of Florida insect farmers
13 minutes
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Animals and humans
The posthuman dog
If humans were to disappear from the face of the Earth, what might dogs become? And would they be better off without us?
Jessica Pierce
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Animals and humans
A bluesy ballad tells the story of Old Bet, the first circus elephant in the US
8 minutes