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People talk to their pets every day: offering praise when they’re good, reassurance when they’re confused and affection when they’re cuddling. We also speak to animals when they misbehave. “Why did you do that?” someone might ask their dog. Or we might scold the cat – “Don’t touch that!” – as we move a family heirloom across the room.

No. 9: Your pet cat is an absolute killer who'd nosh on 2,084 species if you let it.

Biological sex comes in many more forms than just male or female. Yifei Fang/Moment via Getty Images Uncommon Courses is an occasional series from The Conversation U.S. highlighting unconventional approaches to teaching. Title of course: Diversity of Biological Sex Characteristics What prompted the idea for the course? Most people view biological sex, or the physical features related to reproduction, as simple and binary – either male or female. Even those who recognize that gender &#x201...

Researchers have found that same-sex behavior among animals, especially primates, is not only common but helps relationships and reduces conflict.

It's tempting to envision orcas attacking yachts as the forward troops in an animal uprising. Jackson Roberts/iStock via Getty Images PlusMemes galore centered on the “orca revolution” have inundated the online realm. They gleefully depict orcas launching attacks on boats in the Strait of Gibraltar and off the Shetland coast. One particularly ingenious image showcases an orca posed as a sickle crossed with a hammer. The cheeky caption reads, “Eat the rich,” a nod...

We need to start talking about how to protect AI from us.

The darker corners of YouTube document state-sanctioned conservation efforts with video compilations of feral pig hunting. Legal, lethal control of this exotic invasive species is on full display as citizens use guns and iPhones to complete the job. Interested viewers need not search hard to find hog hunting footage of aerial gunning from helicopters or […]

The “rights we confer on others,” including animals, do indeed “define who we are as a society”

Today, in a major blow to animal rights and nonhuman animal "personhood" advocates, the New York Court of Appeals, in a 5-2 decision, rejected the effort by the NonHuman Rights Project (NhRP)...