In her research report, Gabriela Soto Laveaga, Professor of the History of Science at Harvard concentrates on different aspects of the RF’s activities in this arena.

La geógrafa Claudia Leal reconstruye la historia de tres de los principales zoológicos colombianos, lo que le permite reflexionar sobre la relación de nuestras sociedades con el mundo natural.

“Muchas aves, después de todo, transmiten y aprenden sus cantos unas de otras, construyen sobre ellos y los complican, recogiendo otros sonidos que asumen e incorporan, sonidos humanos incluidos.” El artículo de Concepción Cortés Zulueta, Investigadora post-doctoral de la Universidad de Málaga, es parte del dossier sobre la historia de los animales.

The Caribbean monk seal (Monachus tropicalis), the only seal species native to Central America, was declared extinct in 2008. This article traces how collection practices by museums, zoos, and aquariums contributed to its extinction.

This article from the dossier “Pandemics and epidemics in historical perspective”, of the journal Topoi, discusses, through a provocation to nine historians from different institutions and countries, the impact of the pandemic on their profession and on the field of history.

This supplement is a special issue about the history of animals, the result of an idea from four Brazilian researchers. See the guest editors’ note.