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The extremely inconvenient truth of wild animal suffering

From Relations: Beyond Anthropocentrism, a special issue on wild animal suffering and intervention in nature (and part 2). Wild animals endure illness, injury, and starvation — we should help. Will gene drives reduce wild-animal suffering? Ole Martin Moen (Oslo): The Ethics of Wild Animal Suffering. Tobias Leenaert on the extremely inconvenient truth of wild animal suffering. An unlikely home for rescued lions, tigers, and bears: A sanctuary on the high plains of Colorado gives abused captive wild animals a new lease on life. Cara Giaimo on how to tell if a lion is happy: By combining experiments and observations with rigorous empathy, animal well-being experts can go Doctor Doolittle. Do animals feel pain like we do? The nature of pain is perhaps even more complex in animals.

Josh Milburn (QUB): Rabbits, Stoats and the Predator Problem: Why a Strong Animal Rights Position Need Not Call for Human Intervention to Protect Prey from Predators. Can a predator really be friends with its prey? Cari Romm on the murky science of interspecies bonds.