AWI Quarterly Term Archive
Review
Killing Games
Terrestrial WildlifeKilling Games: Wildlife in the Crosshairs, a new film produced and distributed by Project Coyote (with some support from AWI), serves as an overview of wildlife killing contests: what they...
The Magic of Touch
Animals in LaboratoriesPlacing rats in an open field increases their level of the stress hormone prolactin. There is something, however, that can temper this stress response: the ability to touch another rat....
A Plastic Ocean
Marine WildlifeA beached Bryde’s whale writhes in distress, then slowly grows still. It is death by plastic: The whale’s stomach is tightly packed with bags and other plastic debris that must...
Dead Zone
Terrestrial WildlifeIn Dead Zone: Where the Wild Things Were, Philip Lymbery takes readers along as he explores the lives of elephants in Sumatra, jaguars in Brazil, and barn owls in the United...
Other Minds
Marine WildlifeIn this compelling work, distinguished philosopher of science and scuba diver Peter Godfrey-Smith writes of his experiences studying the minds of cephalopods, particularly octopuses and cuttlefish, and the minds of...
A Plea for the Animals
A Plea for the Animals is largely a compendium, providing summary descriptions of the horrible sufferings imposed upon animals resulting from factory farming, animal experimentation, trafficking in wildlife, and “animals in...
Eating the Ocean
Marine WildlifeAt its heart an ethnography, Eating the Ocean, by gender and culture professor Elspeth Probyn, is a challenging and unexpected contribution to the growing “food politics” genre. Although focused on questions...
Serendipity
Marine Wildlife, Terrestrial WildlifeSerendipity: An Ecologist’s Quest to Understand Nature tells the story of ecologist James A. Estes’ work researching the unexpected collapse of sea otter populations in the Aleutians—specifically, how these declines played...
The Killer Whale who Changed the World
Marine WildlifeThe Killer Whale Who Changed the World, by Mark Leiren-Young, tells a fascinating story. Everything has to start somewhere, and captive display of this or that species is no exception....
Voracious Science and Vulnerable Animals
Animals in Laboratories“I slowly became conscious of the animals’ point of view and recognized that much of what I was doing as a scientist did not square with my own moral standards.”...