Plenum Of The Apes

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It has been a busy few months in the field of animal studies.

[…] Another quite prominent researcher in animal cognition and its ethical implications, Jonathan Birch, popped up in my media diet unexpectedly as a guest on Sean Carroll’s excellent “Mindscape” podcast, discussing his latest book “The Edge of Sentience”. Birch is a fastidiously evidence-based advocate for the consideration of animal cognitive capacities, and the moral considerations entailed thereby.