Reading and Media Resources: Animals in the Wild

Pulitzer Prize winning depiction of the future, focusing specifically on the mass extinction currently unfolding and inevitably to increase over the coming years due to human impact on the planet and...

Investigates the multibillion-dollar global exotic pet trade and the ways in which exotic pets are fetishized and commodified and calls for a “wild life” politics allowing animals to live for the sake...

This documentary explores the critical role that sharks play in maintaining healthy ecosystems, and sheds light on the devastating impact of humans' widespread destruction of shark populations around...

A firsthand account of a social psychologist’s somewhat accidental introduction to the world of cat rescue, the trap-neuter-return method of feral cat management and the often hidden world of feral...

Documentary about the international trade of captive orcas.

Environmental history of the disappearance of free-ranging antelope and bison, along with their predators, wolves, coyotes, and grizzly bears, from the American Great Plains.

Personal narrative from the famed primate researcher regarding her years of interactions with and observations of the chimpanzee residents of Gombe, on the shores of Lake Tanganyika.

Incorporates indigenous law to advocate for folding animals into our existing system of property law to allow them to own land in trust, thereby creating a crucial tool to reduce biodiversity loss.

A South African kelp forest octopus forms an unlikely bond with a filmmaker who gains insights into the animal's world as she shares its mysteries.

Depicts the fictionalized true story of the work of naturalist Dian Fossey with the mountain gorillas of Rwanda. Directed by Michael Apted, starring Sigourney Weaver.