The Intelligence of Bird Nests
How could a creature with such a small brain create something so exquisite?
Author Archives: Brandon Keim
Brandon Keim is a science journalist who specializes in animals and nature. His bylines include the New York Times, National Geographic, The Atlantic, and The Nautilus, where he is contributing editor. His latest book, Meet the Neighbors, explores what animal personhood—knowing them as thinking, feeling beings—means for our relationships to wild animals and nature.
Being a Salamander
In a tiny hollow beneath a log, reflected in my headlamp’s glow, were two gold-flecked black eyes and a dull pinkish snout.
In Conservation, What’s Old Becomes New Again
It’s quite odd, when you stop and think about it, that landscapes shaped by millions of years of wind and rain and tectonic shifts, by countless millennia of vegetation growing...
Crows are Wicked Smart
Should an animal's intelligence change the way we treat it?
