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Bright Flight

The mysteries of firefly synchrony

K9-1-1

From accounts of calls made by a dog to a human using DogPhone, a toy ball that initiates a video call when moved. The experiments were recounted in Proceedings of…

Song and Dance

by Antonia Lloyd-Jones, Witold Szabłowski,

By Witold Szablowski, from Dancing Bears, a book of reportage that will be published next month by Penguin Books. Szab?owski is a journalist. Translated from the Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones.

The Spaceship and the Moose

by Walter Kirn,

A dozen of us sat and stood around the campfire, guests at a lodge in Wyoming’s Bighorn Mountains. My wife and I were there to hike and sleep and celebrate…

Shaggy Dog Story

by Eileen Myles,

By Eileen Myles, from Afterglow (A Dog Memoir), which was published last month by Grove Press. Myles is a poet and the author of twenty books.

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by Ed Panar,

Injustice Delayed

by Rebecca Solnit,

"The overall impression I came away with from the court decision was that Jarvis Jay Masters was considered a low-grade person who only deserved a low-grade trial. It’s certainly what he got."

Bird in a Cage

by Rebecca Solnit,

There are two things I think about nearly every time I row out into San Francisco Bay. One is a passage from Shankar Vedantam’s The Hidden Brain, in which he…

Dressed to Kill

by John Crowley,

For my birthday last year, my wife bought me three hours with Chris Davis, a master falconer and breeder of hawks. My time would be spent meeting the hawks that…

Avian Voices

by James Seay,

Trying not to kill a mockingbird

Tommy, Beauty, and Baby

by Fletcher Pratt,

Tommy, Beauty, and Baby had set up a harmonious household when a pet store offered an irresistible bargain in the form of an additional pair of young marmosets that nobody…