Although there are many animal books about the nouns for collectives of animals, this book stands out for its lush illustrations. A bloat of hippopotamuses shows large, expressive hippos. Colorful ...

Independent bookstores are the heartbeats of their communities. They provide culture and community, generate local jobs and sales tax revenue, promote literacy and education, champion and center ...

At head of title: DK Smithsonian. Author from title page verso. "Our world is filled with extraordinary diversity, from amoebas to zebras, from tiny toadstools to giant oaks. The wonders of the ...

In March, the ABC aired a story showing footage of pigs in Australian abattoirs being stunned with carbon dioxide before having their throats cut. Packed into small, gas-filled chambers, these animals ...

Only Slate Plus members can gift Slate stories. Become a member to share 10 free articles a month. Dogs do see color. Naked mole rats are oblivious to pain. The first insects couldn’t hear a thing, ...

In the early months of 2020, when the coronavirus pandemic emptied our streets, forced us into our homes and turned down the volume on our noisy outdoor lives, species that typically existed on the ...

THE two books "Animal Wonderland" and "Animals Alive", the first by Frank W. Lane and the second by Austin H. Clark, are not only alike in their titles but also in the wide field they cover. Both are ...

This book is the outcome of my thinking over the past 20 years about the numerous sites at which we humans kill members of our own and of other animal species. I have always been a bit of a word freak ...

I've always been interested in the words that are used to refer to the killing of nonhuman animals (animals), and why so many people object to calling it "murder." In an essay called "Murder, She Didn ...