animals

You know how humans sometimes put out in order to pay their rent? Well, penguins put out to get building materials for their nests.

CATS. God bless those fluffy little hiss donuts. They have yet again come to our rescue when we least deserve them.

Normally, when I think of invasive species, I get a pretty grim picture in my mind. The wilds of Florida are no stranger to terrifying invasive species either — 16 foot Burmese pythons, anyone? — but their latest case of exotic pets gone feral is less horror-movie and more “ZOMG I WANT TO SNUGGLE THEM!”

The human-dog relationship has been mutually beneficial for centuries... Now there’s one more truly amazing thing we can credit dogs with doing for people — they can be taught to sense when a diabetic person’s blood sugar is in the danger zone and alert the person to take action.

[CN: abortion, miscarriage, pregnancy] In determining whether to carry forward a pregnancy, we — unlike our caribou and orca relatives — can supplement biology and instinct with conscious reasoning. And we do.

My little sister would name every dead animal that we came across. This is not how to grieve. This is not how to behave with animals.

I'm from Napa, the epicenter for a recent 6.0 magnitude quake that challenged my ideas about Mother Nature and human nature.

As farming becomes increasingly industrialized, toxic herbicides have killed the milkweed plant that sustain monarch butterflies.