If you aren’t yet worried about the multitude of ways you inadvertently inflict suffering onto other living creatures, you will be after reading The Edge of Sentience by Jonathan Birch. And for good ...

It's time to stop bickering, accept what science tells us, acknowledge the widespread occurrence of intentional behavioral flexibility, and pay attention to why it has evolved.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. All three of these discoveries came in the last five years — indications that the more scientists test animals, the more they find ...

In Baja California, animals now have the legal backing necessary to safeguard their well-being, thanks to the approval of a law reform proposed by Governor Marina del Pilar Ávila Olmeda, which seeks ...

Octopuses, crabs and lobsters are capable of experiencing pain or suffering, according to a review commissioned by the UK government, which has added the creatures to a list of sentient beings to be ...

I always love it when scientific researchers provide solid empirical data on the cognitive and emotional lives of nonhuman animals (animals) that some take to be a "surprise" because in their ...

I'm all about being humane in killing what we kill, especially life that is actually aware and thinking and not JUST reacting. But using sentience - the ability to "sense" pain - as a bar to not pass, ...