For a long time, people saw the animal world as a place where only the fastest, strongest, and most aggressive survived. But years of watching animals in the wild are showing a more complex story. In ...

Rob Gierka and Karen Duke explain why this dated, insensitive dismissal ignores the power of human-animal bonds and how animals are vital to our physical and spiritual well-being.

While an increasingly small number of people, especially academic researchers, try to argue that nonhuman animals (animals) don’t really make friends, most people, including both researchers and ...