Our beautiful room is more beautiful when she visits white-tummied, black-backed, long-tailed, red-throated. Her friends flutter round the houses her nests cram the rafters. They speak in foreign voices like squeaking sandals. Their children grow up around us and join the rest.

New post from Anna Finke asking - can plants be truly intelligent if isolated from their communities and ecosystems? um.es/mintlab/index.…

There've been a few stories lately about how animals understand death ... but I hope you'll make space for this one. It goes deep on the philosophy & the science; it asks what other animals share with us—and what we share with them. For Nautilus Magazine: nautil.us/how-animals-un…

Federal documents record the killing of at least 40,000 endangered sandbar sharks by a little-known NOAA Fisheries research program, in addition to tens of thousands more animals belonging to other threatened species. My latest independent investigation: 🦈🧵

BREAKING: NY court recognizes dog as "immediate family member" in case where Nonhuman Rights Project filed two amicus briefs. First time in NY that witnessing a pet's death can support emotional distress damages. ⚖️🐾🧵 nonhumanrights.org/blog/dog-famil…

Perhaps gauche to quote your own book, but I think CROSSINGS's section on the Roadless Rule gets at something fundamental: that to designate roadless places asserts that national forests have value—for wildlife, water, slow recreation—beyond mere timber extraction. #roadecology

Sue and Mike McCloskey built a dairy empire — including the ever popular Fairlife brand — with promises of humane treatment and transparency. A slate of investigations have torn that narrative to bits. Read all about it in my new feature on Fairlife:

This isn't a thread about the genocide in Gaza. It's a thread about a likely genocide somewhere else: Ethiopia. But please don't scroll on and ignore it. This story deserves amplification.

Ignore the stories about how awful spotted lanternflies are. If you own a vineyard, they're a pest. If not, they’re no big deal: a new ecosystem member, eaten by other animals. You don't need to feel bad about them, or squash them, or cut down their trees. You can enjoy them.

Is there a basis for very high protein intake, like 1 g per pound per day?

The reptile revolution begins! Thank you Brandon Keim for this piece in The New York Times today! "Snakes in particular are commonly kept in too-small enclosures with little enrichment. In future research, Dr. Wilkinson said, 'what we would love to do is to look at what happens if you give

Researchers from Harvard, the University of Pittsburgh, and the University of Chicago linked the increase in mortality to cuts in salary and staffing levels. hms.harvard.edu/news/deaths-ro…

Why do so many articles fail to explain *upfront* that deforestation for feed crops is primarily done to feed animals for meat? Doesn't address this until several hundred words in. Headline obscures this, too, as Michael points out.

As best as I can tell, not one obituary or article on Goodall's passing has mentioned the fact that she didn't eat animals. It's a detail worth knowing.