Updated January 23, 2026 | Reviewed by Ekua Hagan I chose the title for this piece for a number of reasons that will become apparent below. It's no surprise that because I've been thinking about positive emotions and feelings for a long time, often focusing on play behavior, I began thinking about different reasons why…
Posted January 14, 2026 | Reviewed by Davia Sills Being sentient means having the ability to feel. A large body of scientific evidence stemming from studies of diverse species clearly shows that many nonhuman animals (animals) are sentient beings.1 These studies also show that the biodiversity of sentience is large and growing, and insects are…
Updated January 4, 2026 | Reviewed by Jessica Schrader Do pets really have the wonderful lives we think they have? What do dogs and other animals really think and feel about their captive lives? Is it possible that some dogs and other animals might be better off without us? After a few people wrote to…
Posted December 4, 2025 | Reviewed by Jessica Schrader Animal videos are a popular genre on social media and online video platforms. Whose day isn’t brightened by seeing an adorable dog or cat doing something cute? But many of these videos unfortunately involve harms for the animals shown in them, according to new research published…
Posted October 9, 2025 | Reviewed by Margaret Foley A very common practice for making nonhuman animals (animals) more appealing or selling various products is to infantilize them by representing them as "cute" big-eyed, round-faced, bobble-headed objects or commodities. In this riveting interview, attorney Taylor Paige Waters discusses her recent writing on this topic and…
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