Leopard Seal Compassion
Compassion draws from a fenceless space. It is different from altruism because compassion comes from an understanding of being connected. True compassion does not stop where one body ends and another begins.
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Category: Essays
Why Animals Need Psychology: Research blows ethology’s cover
By ignoring psyche, animal behavior reduces an individual’s subjective experience to mere signs, passive markers that assume an animal’s inability to voice. In contrast, a psychological framing sees behavior as one among many symptoms through which an animal speaks.
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Walled by Fear
In the Western context, the fear of wild animals reflects our distorted perception of risk, not the risk itself. Unfortunately, this is a consequential fallacy that victimizes carnivores.
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How Coyotes and Humans Can Learn to Coexist in Cities
There is a commonly held assumption that if an animal has become “habituated” to humans (no longer afraid of them), the only option is lethal removal. But the behaviour of individual coyotes that are very persistent in accessing resources and willing to tolerate human proximity can still be effectively reshaped.
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If Only Bears Could Vote: Can we avoid a war around rewilding?
Farmers are numerous and they vote. Both bears and beavers have a notoriously poor record when it comes to showing up on polling days, their turn out being even lower than that of young people.
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