Early this century, independent scholar Jonathan Burt, author of the Reaktion book Animals in Film, persuaded the publisher to produce a series of books on specific animals that would comb ine a broad mix of human-animal interactions and feature each animal’s role in the arts and...
We hope that all our readers and supporters are staying safe in these trying times! I am reminded of the oneness of the world with people, animals and the environment and hope this performance of The Weight captured on YouTube could help spread hope via a song. This...
For those interested in data and understanding current global challenges but who have not yet visited the website, Our World in Data, we would strongly urge spending some time browsing the site. This January a new article appeared addressing the very confusing issue of the...
Thirty years ago, the Kruger National Park in South Africa was managing its elephant population at a population of around 7,500 elephants via an annual culling program. This stopped in the mid-1990s and Kruger then began to translocate elephants to private conservancies and other provincial...
A longtime animal welfare colleague, Robert Blizard, started a blog, Animal Matters, last October. As of today, he has posted fifteen articles or a little more than four per month to the site. As part of a team trying to maintain a schedule of two...
This issue of "Tales of WellBeing” features a story about a successful outdoor cat management program located on Key Largo. The management of domestic cats has become a hot topic in North America and Australasia. Many wildlife biologists are strongly opposed to procedures that leave...
Holiday Note from Kathleen and Andrew Rowan As 2019 draws to a close, we would like to thank all our followers and supporters and wish each of you a prosperous and successful New Year. While there is much to worry about, there are also numerous signs...
Dog Is Love: Why and How Your Dog Loves You (2019) by Clive D.L. Wynne. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. How Dogs Love Us: A Neuroscientist and his Adopted Dog Decode the Canine Brain (2013) by Gregory Berns, Amazon Publishing. The Genius of Dogs: How Dogs Are Smarter Than You Think...
In September, WellBeing International was engaged in an extended trip through Africa including three separate speaking engagements. Concerns about climate change and threats to wildlife and to domestic animals were repeatedly encountered on the trip. On a positive note, September also saw a global action...
The Dog Days of Summer are so-called because Sirius, the dog star, appears in the night sky from around July through September. Sirius’ appearance in the night sky has long been associated with hot, dry weather (which is becoming hotter and drier as the earth...
