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Zoology

Welcome Back, Animals!

It’s time to consider how we can have more animals in our daily lives in the city.

The Unintended Beauty of Starlings

Those wondrous, undulating flocks are stirred by predators.

March 4, 2020

The Tricky Problem with Other Minds

How our mental states overlap with and diverge from those of other species.

August 27, 2019

It Takes a Village to Raise a Meerkat

What the rare cooperative species tells us about ourselves.

July 9, 2019

We Need Insects More Than They Need Us

Inside the world of plastic-eating worms, dung-rolling beetles, and agricultural ants..

July 3, 2019

Elucidating Cuttlefish Camouflage

Research sheds light on the control and development of skin patterning in cuttlefish.

A Eulogy for a Cow

How commodified animals die.

November 7, 2018

Hitler and the Naming of the Shrew

When zoologists tried to change the words for bat and shrew, the Führer was not amused.

October 17, 2018

Predators, Prey, and Vodka

Surveying muskoxen in the Russian far north.

August 7, 2018