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.
Written for a popular audience, this book examines the growing recognition of sophisticated sentience in a wide variety of animals and explores the opportunities we have in everyday life to improve their lives.
A compilation of entries from leading scholars on topics and ideas central to the field of animal studies, incorporating interdisciplinary perspectives from a wide array of fields ranging from anthropology to law to feminist and anti-racist scholarship.
In countering scientific skepticism about anthropomorphism, an anthropologist focuses on a single animal emotion, grief, and supports her contentions regarding its existence and depth through meticulous and interpretive reporting of animals who are very apparently mourning lost companions and mates.
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 around the world, argues that conservation practices should be rooted in empathy and compassion for the well-being of individuals, species, populations, and ecosystems.
A personal narrative of how a primate scientist, who began his career in the laboratory of Harry F. Harlow at the University of Wisconsin performing invasive behavioral research on monkeys, eventually, over the course of a prestigious scientific career, became a vocal advocate for animal protection.
Extends the consideration of scientific advances in our understanding of animal minds to animals commonly raised for food. Combines a review of the latest science with accounts of personal experience and accounts of the work of scientists, farmers, vets, and chefs.
A detailed analysis of the modern dairy industry from the perspective of its effects on the animals involved. Includes such topics as the difficulties of conducting research regarding the conditions in which animals are held by private industry, the differences and similarities between small dairy farms and the increasingly dominant “mega-dairies” of California, and an exploration of such terms as “anthropomorphism,” “commodification,” and “violence” as applied to the dairy industry.
An exploration of the ambiguous ethics at the heart of the relationships between humans and the animals with whom they share their lives. Through anecdote and scientifically informed analyses of animal behavior, this work examines questions of whether keeping pets is, in and of itself, ethical, which species are better suited to the relationship and how pet keeping should be conducted to optimize the experience of the animal.