Aesop's The Lion and the Boar. Source: J van Kessel/Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain Fables, cartoons, and viral videos often favor animal over human protagonists. Here’s why. A fable is a short tale ...

NEW YORK, Feb. 17, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- As artificial intelligence reshapes the 21st century, Student B Press has launched Animal Intelligence, a cross-genre publishing project that revives animal ...

That’s what children’s book author Tricia Brown did when she wrote the children’s book “The Itchy Little Musk Ox” What would happen, she wondered, if a little musk ox had an itch on his back? An itch ...

In George Orwell’s novella “Animal Farm,” a band of neglected animals stage a coup against their cruel human owner, Mr. Jones. Buoyed by a shared dream of equality, dignity and peace, they develop ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Several chapters into Aesop’s Animals: The Science Behind the Fables, zoologist and ...