Tripp York

Five Questions with Marc Bekoff

Dr. Marc Bekoff is Professor Emeritus of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Colorado. He’s written numerous books in his discipline, has been on television many times, and is considered one of the foremost writers in the realm of animal welfare. He was also kind enough to write the foreword for my co-edited […]

Tripp York

Project Nim [Chimpsky]: Why Wittgenstein is Still Right

Chimps, children’s books, horny psychology professors, and shoddy theories in linguistics. It’s a recipe for disaster. The recent documentary Project Nim details the story of researchers attempting to discover whether or not a chimp can learn human language. Chimps, armadillos, aardvarks, and marmokrebs are not going to learn human language anymore than we are going […]