In my May 11 article, "Is the Language We Are Using to Describe Our Pets Sending the Wrong Message?" I pointed out that the Journal of Animal Ethics has called for the ban of a number of common words ...
“The flight zone is another way to describe an animal’s personal space.” That mere concept, as common to the stockmen, silently discusses why domesticated wild creatures can still act in an irregular ...
A herring in the North Sea, a crab in the Wadden Sea or an anemone fish on a coral reef… biologists like to think in terms of individual species that all have their own place within food webs in ...