Steve Cooke (Manchester): Animal Rights and Environmental Terrorism. Darcy Courteau reviews Wild Ones: A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals in America by Jon Mooallem. Will elephants be extinct by 2025? Worldwide demand for ivory is fueling rampant poaching. Steve Donoghue reviews Trash Animals: How We Live With Nature’s Filthy, Feral, Invasive, and Unwanted Species. The living dead wouldn't stand a chance: David Mizejewski explains how nature would deal with a zombie outbreak. Lindsay Abrams on a new study that suggests that manmade changes to the environment are making some animals smarter. Philip Bethge on how dolphins may be dumber than we think. Are pigs as smart as dogs, and does it really matter? Julian Baggini on the vegan carnivore: It's made in a lab, no factory farms and no killing, but it's still meat — looks like we'll need a whole new food ethics. Saving animals from factory farms: Alissa Quart on fake meat’s increasingly real future. George Dvorsky on how to be an ethical carnivore. Pro-life, pro-animal: Matthew Scully on the conscience of a pro-life, vegan conservative. Why you look like your dog: Sarah Yager goes behind the phenomenon of pet/owner resemblance. Michael Kaiser on trial issues in a dog bite case. Damaris Colhoun on why we love cat memes: Grumpy Cat's ancestors hail from ancient Egypt and mid-20th century France, and show why cat art fascinates us. Sorry, you probably don't understand your cat's meows.
