Laurel has been an ongoing Pop-Up Magazine contributor.

To answer this question, we’ll unpack a scientific battle centuries in the making, one that involves a serial killer elephant and a suicidal dog.

Through a small, intimate act of care, we begin to reconsider the possibility of love and the ways nourishment—both culinary and emotional.

What is the smartest animal in the world? And if we threw out our human intelligence rubric, is there a fair way to figure it out?

In search of a face-to-snout meeting with real Gay Animals, Laine travels to the Humble Pig Animal Sanctuary, where they meet a crew of runaway dogs, feral chickens and escapees from a pig farm.

Dr. Laurel Braitman joins the Glaucomfleckens to talk about her life with a surgeon father, why she wanted to be around medicine without practicing medicine, the healing power of the word co-survivor, her work at Stanford, and her book.

What it’s like to live with a national symbol.

In Unalaska, Alaska, bald eagles have become bold, opportunistic scavengers—congregating around garbage and fishing boats, aggressively interacting with humans, and even causing injuries as they seek out easy food.

From compulsive bears to self-destructive rats, science historian Laurel Braitman studies animals with mental health issues and asks what we can learn from them.

Birds, cats, whales, chimps and many other types of animals can experience mental illnesses that mirror our own symptoms.

What do violent parrots and obsessive hamsters tell us about ourselves?

A shortlist of books about dogs.

A mobster’s pet is said to be in hiding. Could the bird be a witness in court?

Your job: Be interesting. Researcher and author Laurel Braitman explains.

Harold was Braitman’s confidant, listening patiently as she told him all about her unrequited crushes, how she ran for (and lost) the campaign for 8th grade student body president and how mad and scared she was about her father’s terminal cancer.

Harold eventually led Braitman into the Amazon and face-to-face with her grownup self.

When the gorilla Willie B. had to move to a tiny cage at the Atlanta Zoo for six months, the vet staff decided to put Thorazine in the Coca-Cola he drank in the morning.

Hawaii-based seahorse farm Ocean Rider is breeding populations of seahorses that are turning their backs on mating for life

From anxious dogs to depressed gorillas, animals suffer from mental distress too, and the causes aren't always clear