Dr. Rustin Moore argues that human-animal interactions are more than feel-good phenomena and that these connections enhance health, resilience, and well-being, often in unnoticed ways.

Pets play an important role in many people’s lives. In the UK, six out of ten households have at least one pet, dogs being our most common companions (assuming we don’t count fish individually). But ...

While nonhuman animals (animals) have played a large role in many aspects of human history, most traditional historical works either give them passing coverage or ignore them totally. 1 That is among ...

Kaplan is the author of “Lab Dog: A Beagle and His Human Investigate the Surprising World of Animal Research.” We woke in Boston before daybreak as usual, and Hammy — my beagle, who was once a lab dog ...