I recently gave a behind-the-scenes tour of our ambassador animal area, and I caught myself making a mistake. It wasn’t that I had forgotten a fact or botched a number,…

It will surprise no one in the field of zoology that best practice policy changes with time, and it will probably surprise even fewer that this change looks dramatically different…

A Public Letter Regarding APHIS-2020-0068, In reviewing the proposal to amend the Animal Welfare Act to include birds under its umbrella, and some of the over 10,000 public comments submitted…

Science isn’t often preoccupied with “why” questions. We might wonder how an eel reproduces, or where a species of bird migrates to; but “why” questions, such as why do humans…

Our understanding of animal learning and behavior has changed tremendously in the past two decades, in large part thanks to the influence of applied behavior analysis and a greater value…