It started with "Ring of Bright Water." Those memoirs about the wisdom and love animals shared with authors. A UC Santa Barbara marine biologist has had it with all of them. Remember "Ring of Bright ...

We’re really good at talking about material things but we’re really bad at talking about emotion,” said David Brooks, op-ed columnist for the New York Times, in a 2011 TED Talk. As we become ever more ...

What do animals think and feel? This question, which has long intrigued science writer and author Virginia Morell, is explored in her new book Animal Wise. From ants that teach, to earthworms that ...

The New York Zoological Park shelters within its comfortable old Bronx plant the finest collections of animals in the world. Curator of Mammals & Reptiles and general head man at the zoo is Dr.

New animal books explore the historical and sociological significance of animals. Plus, there’s room for some whimsy — as well as a look into seaworthy sex lives: “Once They Were Hats: In Search of ...