I recently received a copy of Dr. Keri Cronin's new book called Art for Animals: Visual Culture and Animal Advocacy, 1870–1914. I honestly know just about nothing about this topic, so I immediately ...

What do you do with more than 130 arsenic-tinged taxidermied animals with significant historical and academic value, languishing in a now-closed museum that may or may not be a public health hazard?

Animals in court–with charges, defense, and verdict? Stories about animal trials in the Middle Ages seem bizarre. But were pigs, rats, and beetles really defendants, or are we perpetuating a myth?