Animals

In case you missed it, Time magazine recently published its first-ever list of the year’s 100 most influential animals. Absurd? Maybe. Probably. But that doesn’t mean it’s not awesome. As one who studies the …

Few megafaunal species are more iconic than mountain gorillas, and few are now more threatened. According to our best estimates, there are fewer than 900 mountain gorillas left in their …

Since I’ve previously used this blog to lament the shrinking number of chimpanzees and elephants here on planet Earth, I was thrilled to read several headlines over the past few weeks indicating that not …

The world’s chimpanzee population is shrinking. There are now barely 150,000 chimpanzees left on Earth, fifty-percent fewer than there were just fifty years ago. By comparison, there are now more than 7,181,650,000 humans roaming …

It’s hard not to be impressed with whales, whom the suddenly ubiquitous Carl Sagan once called “the grandest creatures on the planet.”  They can grow larger than the largest dinosaurs, and their …

The current issue of National Geographic magazine includes an excellent feature on the Atlantic bluefin tuna, whom Ernest Hemingway once called the “king of all fish.”  According to the article’s author, Kenneth Brower, bluefin …

To buy me some time while I get the hang of this whole blogging thing, I thought I’d post links to some of my previous work on other websites.  In …