I once found an interesting article in The Anatomical Record and Ive been getting their email TOCs and early view alerts ever since. Usually its obscure stuff, though occasionally the subscription pays off. Case in point, the third installment of The Anatomy of the Dog Soft Palate, yes the appeal is still limited

This chart appeared in Mental Evolution in Animals Mental Evolution in Man, both published in the 1880s; Romanes depicts the emotional and cognitive development starting with unicellular. On the left, at level 21, Romanes lists Jealousy. Anger and Play. On the right side, at level 28 we see Anthropoid apes and dogs at the same

I am slowly writing a post on animal pain or how we view pain in animals, not really sure yet. During my research I came across this lecture (audio / 40 min / 19 MB). by Joanna Bourke; I found the parallels in our historical attitudes toward animals and the other(i.e. gender, race, economic classes)

Hogarths The Four Stages of Cruelty (1751) depict, fictional protagonist Tom Nero as he progresses from cruelty to animals as a child,to cruelty to animals as an adult. While various Scenes of sportive Woe, The Infant Race employ, And torturd Victims bleeding shew, The Tyrant in the Boy. Behold! a Youth of gentler Heart, To

The SPARCS conference was a unique opportunity for people to hear directly from researchers; not restrained by an interviewer, the PIs were able to present their research in whatever way they felt was important. Researchers dont often get to talk directly to the public and I cant think of a case where such a distinguished

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