Taimie L. Bryant (UCLA): Virtue Ethics and Animal Law. Kimberley Hockings reviews Planet Without Apes by Craig B. Stanford. People are used to being asked to help save photogenic pandas, but are there animals whose strange appearance hinders conservation? Karl Baker reviews Animal Cities: Beastly Urban Histories. Why wild animals are moving into cities, and what to do about it. Brian Berkey reviews Personhood, Ethics, and Animal Cognition: Situating Animals in Hare's Two-Level Utilitarianism by Gary. E. Varner. Why are dogs racist? Canine experts speak. A life and death animal rights controversy: Barbara J. King on the story of Bill and Lou. Amanda Fiegl on the healing power of dogs: Canines bring comfort to Newtown survivors and others in crisis. Katie L. Burke reviews Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic by David Quammen. Costa Rica officially bans hunting, becoming the first Latin American country to outlaw the sport. What is the world’s most dangerous animal? Dan Nosowitz on 10 animals that are smarter than you think. Monte Richard on 5 shocking ways monkeys are just as dysfunctional as us. Brian Moylan on how you will never be as rich as these pets.
