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Nautilus

<a href="http://marcbekoff.com/">Marc Bekoff</a>, Ph.D. is a professor emeritus of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He has published 31 books (or 41 depending on if you count multi-volume encyclopedias), won many awards for his research on animal behavior, animal emotions (cognitive ethology), compassionate conservation, and animal protection, worked closely with Jane Goodall, and is co-chair of the ethics committee of the Jane Goodall Institute, and a former Guggenheim Fellow. He and Jane wrote The Ten Trusts: What We Must Do to Care For the Animals We Love.

Marc Bekoff

Zoology

The Indomitable Jane Goodall

Molly Glick is the newsletter editor of Nautilus.

Molly Glick

How to Get an Elephant’s Attention

Katarina Zimmer is a freelance science and environment journalist.

Katarina Zimmer

Deep Sleep Is This Mammal’s Super Power

Katherine Harmon Courage is the executive editor at Nautilus.

Katherine Harmon Courage

A Library for Fish Sounds

Alex Riley is an award-winning science writer and the author of <a href="https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324079187">Super Natural: How Life Thrives in Impossible Places</a>. He lives in south Devon, UK, with his family.

Alex Riley

The Extreme Animals in Our Backyards

Rohini Subrahmanyam is a biologist turned science journalist. She loves writing about interesting creatures on our planet. Subrahmanyam received a Ph.D. from the National Center for Biological Sciences at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in India. Follow her on X (formerly Twitter) <a href="https://twitter.com/rohsubb">@rohsubb</a> and on <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/rohini-subrahmanyam-261596216/">LinkedIn</a>, and see her portfolio <a href="https://muckrack.com/rohini-subrahmanyam-1/portfolio/list">here</a>.

Rohini Subrahmanyam

The Silent Language of Birds

Marina Wang is a multimedia journalist from Calgary, Alberta. Her work has appeared in Hakai, Atlas Obscura, CBC, Science Magazine, Canadian Geographic, and many other publications.

Marina Wang

Hunting the Most Elusive Whale

Ambika Kamath is trained as a behavioral ecologist and evolutionary biologist.

Ambika Kamath

The Queer Lives of Frogs

Sara Kiley Watson is a climate and science journalist currently based in the Netherlands.

Sara Kiley Watson

Chimps Hit the Sauce on the Daily

Liz Lindqwister is a writer originally from Peoria, Illinois. Her reporting on tech, culture, and history has appeared in the San Francisco Standard, STANFORD Magazine, the Library of Congress, and Vox’s Today Explained. A historian by training, Lindqwister holds degrees in early American studies from Stanford University and Cambridge University.