Love
Love in Animals
Voles, albatrosses, dogs and grief, and the discipline of not putting words in their mouths
The prairie voles · Nagasawa · Tahlequah · 4 chapters · 10 min read
Voles, albatrosses, dogs and grief, and the discipline of not putting words in their mouths.
Free to read: every chapter below is open
What can be measured and what cannot
- 01The Vole That Explains Too MuchOn the rodent that became the love hormone, and what the study actually said.
- 02The Divorce Rate of a Faithful BirdOn a bird that almost never leaves its partner, and the year that changed.
- 03The Loop That Domestication BuiltOn a feedback loop between two species, and what it does and does not prove.
- 04The Orca Who Carried Her CalfOn seventeen days, a thousand miles, and the limit of what can be known.