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Humanimalia is a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary, open access journal devoted to the study of human–animal relations.

30/07/2025

Hot off the press: the latest issue of Humanimalia — a “summer” rather than a “spring” issue, in recognition of the fact that our publishing rhythm has been gradually drifting away from the equinox and toward the solstice.
As ever, this issue is packed with incisive and engaging reflections on the human–animal relationship: from taxidermied horses in London (Mattfeld) and feral pigs in Australia (Keil) to “happy” goats in Italy (Reggio) and robot dogs in Gaza (Selby), plus pheasants in the Netherlands (van Heijgen) and sheepdog trials in Scotland and Wales (Theunissen).
Not to mention book reviews by Ben De Bruyn, Carlo Salzani and Zipporah Weisberg, Pablo Castelló, Talitha May (who also supplied the cover image), and Poulomi Choudhury.

The issue is completely open access. Please visit https://humanimalia.org/issue/view/1232 to read and share.

20/04/2025

The world’s largest rodent is multiplying in — and dividing — one of Argentina’s most exclusive gated communities.

07/04/2025

In search of “improper ideology” among the animals

05/04/2025

Bonobos combine their calls in a complex way that forms distinct phrases, a sign that this type of syntax is more evolutionarily ancient than previously thought.

Human language, often described as the hallmark of our species, is made up of many different building blocks. One core block is syntax, where meaningful units are combined into longer sequences, like words into sentences. This is made possible through compositionality, where the meaning of the whole is derived from the meaning of the parts.

Read more: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2474993-bonobos-use-a-kind-of-syntax-once-thought-to-be-unique-to-humans/

Image: Lukas Bierhoff, Kokolopori Bonobo Research Project

26/03/2025

As cats evolved from feral ratters into beloved Victorian companions, a nascent pet-food economy arose on the carts of so-called “cat’s meat men”. Kathryn Hughes explores the life and times of these itinerant offal vendors, their intersection with a victim of Jack the Ripper, and a feast held ...

22/03/2025

What we learned about ape and human cognition from Kanzi the bonobo, who died this week

19/01/2025

From Babe to Pet Sematary to Toy Story, the same furious yowl crops up in film after film. So who was the cat and who made the recording? We solve the enigma of the ‘W...

23/12/2024

Humanimalia 15.1 is finally out! — just in time for the holidays...
Featuring a rumination by the editor on 🐌 snails and Mt Fuji, plus original research articles on 🐂 mithuns in the eastern Himalayas, 🐈‍⬛ cats in multispecies communities, 🦮 sniffer dogs at airport security, 🐜 ants in Mexico, and 🐳 orcas in the Strait of Gibraltar.
Plus the usual assortment of engaging reviews of recent books in animal studies.

As usual, the issue is completely free and open access, and available here: https://humanimalia.org/issue/view/1231

Thanks to all the authors, peer reviewers, editors, copyeditors, interns, and production assistants for their hard work in making this issue a reality.

Happy holidays!

22/11/2024

Who better to ask than corvids

12/11/2024

Meta's plans for a new data center were scuttled by environmental complications.

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