Barbara J King

Anthropology Professor, Science Writer, College of William and Mary

Barbara J King is emerita professor of anthropology at William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. She is the author of seven books, most recently How Animals Grieve (2013), Personalities on the Plate: The Lives and Minds of Animals We Eat (2017) and Animals’ Best Friends: Putting Compassion to Work for Animals in Captivity and in the Wild (2021).

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Photo of a black and white piglet lying next to its mother’s udders on a dirt surface. The bodies of both animals are partially visible.

essayBioethics

The pig on your plate

That pigs are smart and sensitive is not in doubt. How can we justify continuing to kill them for food?

Barbara J King

Baboons on a rocky, arid landscape; one sitting with a young baboon, another resting, and two observing their surroundings.

essayBiology

Kindred spirits

Animals have friends, enemies, allies and life-long companions. Human relationships aren’t so unique after all

Barbara J King

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