Humanimalia

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

01/10/2025

Breaking News: Jane Goodall, one of the world’s most revered conservationists, died at 91. Her discoveries in the 1960s about how chimpanzees behaved in the wild broke new ground and represented what was called “one of the Western world’s great scientific achievements.” https://nyti.ms/485kD7H

20/09/2025

A team of neuroscientists spied on Manhattan’s rodents with thermal cameras and high-tech mics, uncovering a nightlife of squeaks, social cliques and surprisingly savvy behavior 🐀[
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Hot off the press: the latest issue of Humanimalia — a “summer” rather than a “spring” issue, in recognition of the fact...
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

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