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What To Do If You’re Charged by a Black Bear

What should you do if you’re charged by a black bear? It’s happened thousands of times to Ben Kilham, and he has some advice.

3 min readMay 3, 2019

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What To Do If You’re Charged by a Black Bear

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Do People Need Biodiversity? It’s Complicated.

Until about 15,000 years ago, Earth was home to a menagerie of now-fantastical creatures: giant kangaroos and truck-sized sloths, woolly…

5 min readFeb 6, 2019

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Do People Need Biodiversity? It’s Complicated.

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On Language & Animals

That so many people made a mockery of PETA’s comparisons between animal and human suffering simply underscored their point.

2 min readDec 9, 2018

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On Language & Animals

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If We Could Talk to the Animals: Do Our Politics Have Room for Nonhumans Too?

If we fail to engage with the inner lives of other animals — with the ethical implications of a mallard mother’s love for her ducklings…

1 min readJun 28, 2018

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If We Could Talk to the Animals: Do Our Politics Have Room for Nonhumans Too?

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Thoughts on the #MPRraccoon

As someone who thinks raccoons are utterly marvelous creatures, I ought to be more excited about the virality of one courageous youngster…

2 min readJun 13, 2018

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Thoughts on the #MPRraccoon

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All Creatures Great & Small, 2017 Edition

My favorite photographs from this last year.

3 min readDec 31, 2017

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All Creatures Great & Small, 2017 Edition

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‘Half Invisible’: Some Thoughts on Writing About Research on Animals

A while back I covered the Nonhuman Rights Project’s lawsuits arguing that chimpanzees — as extremely intelligent, emotional and social…

2 min readOct 29, 2017

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‘Half Invisible’: Some Thoughts on Writing About Research on Animals

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The Birds of September 11

On my way to Ground Zero on the tenth anniversary of September 11, 2001, I stopped for a slice a pizza and to clear my head. The previous…

5 min readSep 10, 2017

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The Birds of September 11

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The #1 Bestseller Among Pigeons!

With the help of pigeon-whisperer Blessing Tawengwa, I recently took some publicity photos of The Eye of the Sandpiper. (That was the…

2 min readJul 15, 2017

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The #1 Bestseller Among Pigeons!

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Summer Reading for Nature Lovers

After many moons pecking at its shell, my first book, The Eye of the Sandpiper, has hatched!

1 min readJun 25, 2017

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Summer Reading for Nature Lovers

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Brandon Keim

Brandon Keim

Freelance journalist and writer. Nature, animals, science & environment. Co-founder @KittyEatsBugs. Author of The Eye of the Sandpiper http://a.co/7fC6QsI

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