People have been trying to talk with animals for decades and we might be on the precipice of pulling it off. While previous attempts utilized such questionable methods as dosing dolphins with LSD, ...

Nonhuman animals (animals) are constantly "talking" with one another using sounds, smells, visual signals, and various combinations thereof. In his fascinating new book titled Why Animals Talk: The ...

I recently read a fascinating book by Dr. Michael Gilmour called Creative Compassion, Literature and Animal Welfare and was taken in by how much I learned about the ways in which many well-known books ...

For some, talking to animals is the stuff of fairy tales, cartoons, or quirky movies starring Eddie Murphy. But for Val Heart, animal communication is a real and profound ability — one that can ...

Sophie Cohen-Bodénès knew she was onto something when she saw the cuttlefish extend two arms upwards while twisting its six others together. It was making what she calls the “up” sign – and, ...

Increasingly, however, talking with the animals is becoming less of a fantasy. This doesn’t just invite some fantastic conversations, but recontexualizes the rights we allot to non-human creatures.