Suggested Reading and Media: Animals in the Wild

Examines, in an accessible fashion, questions of fish sentience, intelligence and memory from consideration of the point of view of individual representatives of the over 30,000 species of fish...

Examines the work of four prominent theorists of nature, Theodore Roosevelt, Aldo Leopold, Holmes Rolston III, and Warwick Fox, and argues against their allegiance to abstract constructs, and instead...

Documentary film about the Taiji, Japan, dolphin hunting drive. It was awarded the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2010. Directed by Louie Psihoyos, starring Ric O’Barry.

This collection of essays from scholars in biology, psychology, sociology, social work, economics, political science, and philosophy, as well as from those doing fieldwork in their own countries...

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...

Documentary about the international trade in captive orcas.

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.

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.