All posts tagged The Atlantic

Ed Yong, author of An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

By | August 24, 2022 | Authors, Birds, Fish & Reptiles, Cats, Cetaceans, Dogs, Educators, Elephants, Horses, Mammals | No comments

Ed Yong—a science journalist, staff writer at The Atlantic, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for his coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic and author, most recently of An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us—recounts the genesis of the new book, noting how it evolved from a suggestion his wife, Liz Neeley, made while they were chatting in a London café. Read more…

Steven M. Wise, founder and president of the Nonhuman Rights Project

By | January 12, 2022 | Advocates, Authors, Educators, Elephants, General, Health & Behavior, Primates, Sanctuaries | No comments

Steven M. Wise—founder and president of the Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP); an attorney, author, and legal scholar, Wise is leading NhRP’s pioneering effort to free an elephant named Happy from the Bronx Zoo through a writ of habeas corpus, aiming to change her status from “thing” to “legal person”—reviews NhRP’s legal gambit when we previously spoke in 2013, when the organization was focusing its efforts on chimpanzees. Read more…