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Tantalizing Creatures with Male and Female Genes
Gyandromorphs overturn traditional theories of sexual development.
Empathy, Morality, Community, Culture—Apes Have It All
Primatologist Frans de Waal takes exception with human exceptionalism.
A Eulogy for a Cow
How commodified animals die.
Hitler and the Naming of the Shrew
When zoologists tried to change the words for bat and shrew, the Führer was not amused.
Predators, Prey, and Vodka
Surveying muskoxen in the Russian far north.
The Antelope Killing Fields
Why did two thirds of all saiga antelope die in a couple months?
The Fish That Took a Century to Name
The unlikely story of Alfred Russel Wallace’s pike.
When Mollusks Fall in Love
Two stories from the remarkable work of Sy Montgomery and Elizabeth Marshall Thomas.
I Am Not a Monster
Science has turned the squid from a storied monster into a marvel.
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