This review illustrates how captive animals can experience better welfare through animal-computer interaction technologies that offer agency and mental stimulation.

This study highlights the importance of substrate selection in mitigating inversion risk and promoting righting behavior in scarab beetles. We recommend a heterogeneous substrate composition incorpor...

Modern zoos and aquariums focus on providing the best possible welfare for animals in their care. At the same time, they support or participate in field conservation activities, which aim to protect ...

This article develops the concept of minimal self-sentience to extend the phenomenological notion of minimal self-awareness to non-human animals. Drawing on the phenomenological account of minimal pre...

Abstract. This book provides a defense and an exploration of illusionism regarding phenomenal consciousness. Phenomenal consciousness supposedly encompasse

Every quarter, RSPCA Australia’s science team produces the Animal Welfare Science Update. The aim of the publication is to raise awareness of recent…

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People care deeply about some animals (such as pets) but engage in practices that harm other animals (such as eating meat). In this Review, Dhont and Hodson outline how people evaluate different anima...

Housing quality affects male mouse attractiveness to females

Abstract. The possibility that insects experience pain is a frontier question at the intersection of behaviour, cognition and philosophy of mind. Interest

This article evaluates the evidence for sentience – the capacity to have feelings – in cephalopod molluscs: octopus, cuttlefish, squid, and nautilus. Our framework includes eight criteria, covering b...

Biology & Philosophy - The study of animal consciousness typically focuses on the distribution question: i.e., which animal taxa are conscious. However, recent work has instead suggested a...

Every quarter, RSPCA Australia’s science team produces the Animal Welfare Science Update. The aim of the publication is to raise awareness of recent…

Conference to be held at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, US, on Friday-Saturday November 20/21, 2026. This conference is organized by the Duke Center for Law, Economics, and Public Policy (CL...

ALT: a white parrot is standing on a bed in a living room with a projector screen in the background

Many animals produce courtship sounds, and receivers prefer some sounds over others. Shared ancestry and convergent evolution may generate similarities in preference across species and underlie Darwin...

Tom Heap and Helen Czerski ask what the role of zoos is in the 21st century.

Tom Heap and Helen Czerski ask what the role of zoos is in the 21st century.

On the merits of thought experiments in philosophy and a reply to Eric Schwitzgebel

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This article evaluates the evidence for sentience – the capacity to have feelings – in cephalopod molluscs: octopus, cuttlefish, squid, and nautilus. Our framework includes eight criteria, covering b...

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I am pleased to announce that I am organizing the annual Ratio conference of our department this year on the topic of animals and philosophy.