Jon Mooallem

The Senseless Logic of the Wild

A weeklong trip in Alaska was supposed to be an adventure. In an instant, it became the experience that defined us all.

Neanderthals Were People, Too

New research shows they shared many behaviors that we long believed to be uniquely human. Why did science get them so wrong?

The Amateur Cloud Society That (Sort Of) Rattled the Scientific Community

An improbable tale of how a British maverick harnessed crowdsourced meteorological discoveries to reveal the poetic wonders of the sky.

American Hippopotamus

A bracing and eccentric epic of espionage and hippos.

Squirrel Power!

A single squirrel can disrupt and frustrate thousands of people at a time, switching off our electrified lives for hours.

What's a Monkey to Do in Tampa?

A lone rhesus macaque, running loose in the streets of the Republican convention host city, has become a wildly popular, if elusive, public figure.

Can Animals Be Gay?

The science of same-sex pairings in the wild.

The Self-Storage Self

What is it about Americans that makes us store elsewhere all that stuff we accumulate?

Pigeon Wars

For 10 days this August,a fresh-faced 41-year-old named Jeffrey Traill trolled Hollywood in his Honda, videotaping pigeons. Pigeons lined the ArcLight theaters near the Walk of Fame, commandeered the roof at Big Lots!, perched along power lines like stolid chess pieces. ''Pigeons,'' Traill says in his video, shakily framing one roost. ''Pigeons,'' he says again, wrenching his camera toward another. The effect is nauseating. ''Over there,'' he says. ''Over there. Over there.''