When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Rebecca Giggs SUPER FLY The Unexpected Lives of the World’s Most Successful Insects By Jonathan ...

Who knew that chickens and humans find the same faces beautiful? Or that fish choose reliable partners for “dangerous predator inspection missions?” Referencing such intriguing studies, Balcombe ...

Jonathan Balcombe, Ph.D., has written scientific papers and lay articles on animal behavior, humane education, and animal research. In 2000, the Humane Society Press released his first book, The Use ...

Gloucester’s lament in “King Lear”—“As flies to wanton boys are we to th’ gods; / They kill us for their sport”—isn’t cited in “Super Fly: The Unexpected Lives of the World’s Most Successful Insects,” ...

If you were the kind of kid who felt really, really sorry for the goldfish swimming in circles in that tiny, boring bowl, “What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins” is the book for ...

From tickling to playing catch, animals engage in certain behaviors just for fun, even enjoying sensations that are unknown to humans, concludes an extensive new survey on pleasure in the animal ...

The subtitle of Jonathan Balcombe’s new book, “Super Fly: The Unexpected Lives of the World’s Most Successful Insects” leads to the first question on this week’s podcast. Why “successful”? “Their ...

Zygmunt Dembek sounds a false alarm in his letter about the value of alternatives to animal dissection in the training of veterinarians, medical doctors, and other medical professionals (Letters, The ...