In Baja California, animals now have the legal backing necessary to safeguard their well-being, thanks to the approval of a law reform proposed by Governor Marina del Pilar Ávila Olmeda, which seeks ...

If you aren’t yet worried about the multitude of ways you inadvertently inflict suffering onto other living creatures, you will be after reading The Edge of Sentience by Jonathan Birch. And for good ...

Sentience in nonhuman animals (animals) is a "hot" topic receiving attention from a wide range of researchers with different interests and agendas. For the purpose of this essay and as I've done ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. All three of these discoveries came in the last five years — indications that the more scientists test animals, the more they find ...

Baja California Governor Marina del Pilar Ávila Olmeda promoted the reform of Article 7, which now recognizes animals as sentient beings in the state’s Constitution—an unprecedented move that ...

An eye-opening new book seamlessly intertwining science with poetry—"kinpoetics"—depicts other animals as individuals with dynamic personalities, emotional lives, and subjectivity.

I'm all about being humane in killing what we kill, especially life that is actually aware and thinking and not JUST reacting. But using sentience - the ability to "sense" pain - as a bar to not pass, ...

Bees play by rolling wooden balls — apparently for fun. The cleaner wrasse fish appears to recognize its own visage in an underwater mirror. Octopuses seem to react to anesthetic drugs and will avoid ...