Articles Tagged with #animals
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Field Reports
El Lobo Returns Home
The battle over America’s wolves goes back centuries. In an excerpt from the forthcoming Wolf Nation, a journalist follows the release of a single family into the wild.
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Video
Secrets of Baltimore, the Snowy Owl
An NPR reporter retraces a snowy owl’s flight from a beach in Maryland to an island in Canada.
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Video
“It’s pretty much failure after failure. And then you get that gift, about once a year.”
A mini-doc about a National Geographic photographer and why he does what he does.
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Learning to Slaughter
This Bird’s Life
Leave the pardoning to the president. For one budding farmer, some truths are self-evident: that turkeys are stupid, dirty, and very mean.
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In Plain Sight
The Last Dying Cat
When the family pet nears the end, of course there is sadness. But there is also every other emotion.
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Investigations
Hunting the Hound
A lifelong phobia is the result of a terrifying childhood incident. But the real culprit may be Arthur Conan Doyle.
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A Supposedly Necessary Thing
The Slaughter
To produce food in the form of meat, an animal will be killed. Obvious but significant: You will realize you are about to end a life.
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Video
You Understand What You Confront
To save our sharks, we must evolve in how we see them.
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At the Movies
This Was No Accident
Forty years after Jaws, why the very first blockbuster should be considered art—and how it helped one man to survive.
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Phenomena Understood
Our Dino Love Will Never Die
Dinosaurs haven’t been super-popular for 65 million years—it only feels that way. Fans and experts explain our obsession with dead monsters.
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Personal Essays
The Problem of the Flying Puppies
Catfishing is usually part of an online romance scam—not the world of expensive French bulldogs.
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How the West Was Lost
The Riflemaker Dreams of Africa
The American West is a myth. One Wyoming gunmaker looks anywhere else—abroad, in the past, in himself—for new wilderness.