Animals

And there are my cats, engaged in a ritual that goes back thousands of years, tranquilly licking themselves after the meal. Practical animals, they prefer to have others provide the food ... Some of them do. There must have been a split between the cats who accepted domestication and those who did not.

If we're not supposed to eat animals, how come they're made out of meat?

If Levi were a dog, he'd be a golden retriever. If he were a game, he'd be a Ping-Pong, incessant and bouncing and light.

I wish cats could float around your head.

When we see animals doing remarkable things, how do we know if we're simply seeing tricks or signs of real intelligence? Are talented animals just obeying commands, or do they have some kind of deeper understanding? One of the biggest challenges for animal researchers is to come up with tests that can distinguish between the two.

Most animals are like people-and like good people.

I've seen all kinds of things done to dolphins in my travels around the world, but I have never seen anything as horrible as this dolphin drive hunt in Taiji.

Scientific physiology has the task of determining the functions of the animal body and deriving them as a necessary consequence from its elementary conditions.

One upside of the heat. Kind of cool to see a cat pant.

...Animals behaved with purpose, it seemed. Unlike people.

Unnecessary violence against animals is a heinous crime. Be a voice for those who do not have one.