Her recent publications combine her longstanding interest in care-based ethics and human animal relationships. “How to Do Things Without Words,” (In Arguments about Animals (Lexington, 2010) examines animal “whispering” as both a rhetorical and ethical construct . “Human Uniqueness in the Age of Ape Language Research” (Society and Animals, 2010) analyzes the rhetorical and ethical dimensions of the interdisciplinary discussion of human uniqueness.