The stereotypes of dominant male and docile female creatures have shaped zoology since the time of Charles Darwin. This interpretation all too often still goes unchallenged today in textbooks and ...

When I first heard of Oxford-trained zoologist and best-selling author Lucy Cooke's new book, Bitch: On the Female of the Species, I couldn't wait to read it. When I completed it, I realized all of ...

To Charles Darwin, nature had a certain order. And in that order, males always came out on top. They were the leaders, the innovators, the wooers and the doers. “The males of almost all animals have ...

It’s hard for me to imagine a woman torturing a helpless animal. This is probably due to a number of reasons; females are much less likely to abuse animals, most animal rescue volunteers are women, ...

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